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Old 05-25-2014, 01:44 PM   #1
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For some reason, this speech stays with me throughout almost every Memorial Day weekend. Says much so much better than I.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Given November 19, 1863
Near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA


Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war ... testing whether that
nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated ... can long
endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate ... we cannot consecrate ... we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ... that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion ... that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom ... and that government of the people ... by the people ... for the people ... shall not perish from the earth.
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Old 05-25-2014, 01:51 PM   #2
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Old 05-25-2014, 02:34 PM   #3
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Very Cool!

Thanks to all our veterans -- past, present and future.
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Old 05-25-2014, 02:42 PM   #4
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Old 05-25-2014, 02:51 PM   #5
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Old 05-25-2014, 05:33 PM   #6
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Old 05-26-2014, 07:31 AM   #7
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http://www.usmemorialday.org/?page_id=2

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To past and current vets: thank you
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As someone that served, fought and was blessed enough to return home, there is nothing more solemn, nothing sadder than this Tomb. If you ever are in D.C. and have a chance to visit it, I highly recommend it.

Bless the Unknowns, their friends and families that never got the answers they will always seek.

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Thank you to all you have served and all who currently serve.
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Originally Posted by markem View Post
For some reason, this speech stays with me throughout almost every Memorial Day weekend. Says much so much better than I.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Given November 19, 1863
Near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA


Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war ... testing whether that
nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated ... can long
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We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate ... we cannot consecrate ... we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us ... that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion ... that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom ... and that government of the people ... by the people ... for the people ... shall not perish from the earth.
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