Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing weather any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. Now 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 of those that gave their lives, so that nation might live. It is all together fitting and proper that we should do this. In a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead have conscecrated it far above our 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 to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 22:27:05 +0000