irish ike, SASS #43615 Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 I don't know how to put an actual link in, but copy and paste will work. And it's a great site for everything about the Civil War. http://www.civilwar.org/video/the-great-task.html A few simple words that have effected everyone. Ike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 My favorite version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Harley, #14153 Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Have never seen this version. Thank you for sharing. Powerful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 "The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history...the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination – that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves." - H. L. Mencken Mencken, politically incorrect - always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seldom Seen #16162 Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Incorrect? Who is governing who today? The people or a massive Federal Government with our friends in the IRS, DHS and BATF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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