The Patriot Files Forums  

Go Back   The Patriot Files Forums > Conflict posts > Civil War

Post New Thread  Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 11-19-2003, 02:53 PM
MM38084's Avatar
MM38084 MM38084 is offline
Member
 

Join Date: May 2003
Location: Michigan
Posts: 56
Default Gettysburg Address

THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS:


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
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.

November 19, 1863

Abraham Lincoln
__________________
\"Freedom Is A System Based On Courage\"
sendpm.gif Reply With Quote
Sponsored Links
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
gettysburg 39mto39g Reenactment 5 11-05-2007 10:23 AM
New Email Address PHO127 Suggestions to Admin 0 04-02-2006 07:35 PM
Gettysburg DMZ-LT Civil War 6 09-22-2004 02:51 AM
Mission at Gettysburg Back From Iraq thedrifter Marines 1 07-14-2003 08:15 PM
Gettysburg Address RNwriter Civil War 2 05-31-2002 10:33 PM

All times are GMT -7. The time now is 04:58 PM.


Powered by vBulletin, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.