I've been perusing presidential speeches this morning, not just reading them, but, REALLY, reading them and "listening" to the message. I am beginning to think that almost everything that our founding fathers intended for this country has been lost. I remember sitting in front of our Philco radio listening to President Roosevelt, Walter Winchell, H. V. Kaltenborn, Peter Grant, from WLW in Cincinnati and others, and not just "listening" but "hearing" what was being said. I remember hearing Truman give his farewell address. Read Lincoln's words, slowly, and listen to them, think about them .....
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.
Millwork Engineering The Gettysburg Address 2 Part , Framed Art/ 2 Part /Textured, by The Craft Room, Model # WI1004
