GorillaXI Posted August 20, 2011 Member ID: 62 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 73 Topic Count: 480 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 4124 Content Per Day: 0.72 Reputation: 1413 Achievement Points: 27905 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 4, 2015 Birthday: 06/16/1972 Posted August 20, 2011 On November 19 1863 Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that he was sure was to be soon lost to history. I recently heard this and had to remind every one. Please pay attention to the last line. I know this is something that everyone knows the first line. But when I was in 2nd grade I had to learn the whole speech. So to me it brings back a memory of my youth and a look into our future. 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.
Deranged Posted August 20, 2011 Member ID: 295 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 50 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1535 Content Per Day: 0.27 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 8175 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/07/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 01/01/1970 Posted August 20, 2011 right on!
chris4874 Posted August 20, 2011 Member ID: 2491 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 37 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 354 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2140 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/11/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 04/20/1961 Posted August 20, 2011 gettysburg address? one of the greatest speeches given by a man in history
TBB Posted August 20, 2011 Member ID: 989 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 25 Topic Count: 290 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 20377 Content Per Day: 3.64 Reputation: 22448 Achievement Points: 147309 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 389 Joined: 01/07/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 15 hours ago Birthday: 01/27/1946 Device: Windows Posted August 20, 2011 1000 Awards
Pharticus Posted August 20, 2011 Member ID: 1320 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 7 Topic Count: 37 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 611 Content Per Day: 0.11 Reputation: 357 Achievement Points: 4498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/10/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 22, 2024 Birthday: 01/14/1976 Device: Windows Posted August 20, 2011 Wow, I still remember bits and pieces of it. Amazing how little I understood in 8th/9th grade. Only now do those words have profound meaning.... Awards
hxtr Posted August 20, 2011 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.96 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Posted August 20, 2011 Sucks that he lied.
Labob Posted August 20, 2011 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8389 Content Per Day: 1.47 Reputation: 6126 Achievement Points: 54468 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 22 Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Windows Posted August 20, 2011 He did not lie HXTR way back then it might of had some hope of being for the better. What he got wrong was there's money in it . Now its not by the people and for the people. People are not even willing to vote. And what do you or I have to compete with companys like Google, Apple. Ah christ there 's to many who have more money then your goverment. Who is the goverment going to listen too. I promise not you. Were just lucky that most of us have some education and understand moral fortiude to some degree . Well atleast we make them fight for there jobs. Awards
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