Wouldn’t It Be Cool If: We learned from HISTORY?
WIBCI: we thought more about the great speakers of our country?
Have you ever read the Gettysburg Address? I’m asking if you know the 268 words of the address, not just the first six, or the last sixteen?
I guess a better question is not have you read it, do you understand the why and when of it?
Abraham Lincoln wrote this and delivered on the deadliest and most decisive battlefields of the Civil War. A battle that turned the tide in a war under the guise of uniting. This was a cry to unite a torn nation, not unlike our’s today. Instead of North vs. South, I see our war as Mega Rich vs. everyone else. President Lincoln’s address poked a hole in what was meant by ‘men are created equal’ and asked us, to put a new meaning to this phrase, and to let all the death not be for nothing. I think it carries the same weight today. They did not die so 1% of the population takes from the rest of us, that wasn’t the point, at least I don’t think so. What do YOU think?
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on 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 battle-field 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 can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not 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.
Last Updated on 08/15/2025 by Death of Hypatia Inc.
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