November 22, 2010
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Anniversary Of Gettysburg Address
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November 19th, 2010 at 8:57 am
Man, they don’t write ‘em like that anymore.
Lincoln was a wise man. We could use some of that wisdom now. I think it was in the Cooper Union speech he said something like “A country divided against itself cannot stand.”
Is this country not divided against itself currently?
November 19th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
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November 19th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
One can hardly imagine how touching it must have been for people sharing the room in the first photograph to take part in this eminently important moment in history. I wonder whether they were aware of this?
Anyway, it’s nice to have these images lifted onto the surface on occassions like today.
November 22nd, 2010 at 3:20 am
The power and eloquence of this masterpiece of oratory is contained within it’s errant simplicity. It is clearly focused and immensely powerful in it’s prose.
Moreover, it gains power and immortality in the succinct brevity with which Lincoln involked the sacred obligations entailed by what had taken place at Gettysburg.