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This Day in History November 19,1863 President Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address
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Posted on 11/19/2007 2:51:38 PM PST by mdittmar
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11/19/2007 2:51:40 PM PST
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mdittmar
To: mdittmar
My daughter recited that in first grade for Talent Day.
She did a great job - with good emotion.
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posted on
11/19/2007 2:52:52 PM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
To: nmh
I am teaching my four young homeschooled children to memorize it now also. We’re studying Lincoln and the Civil War. It’s only 11 sentences. They’ll do just fine.
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11/19/2007 2:55:19 PM PST
by
adopt4Christ
(The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.)
To: mdittmar
The old America died with the Civil War. What passed away then was not extinguished; America was reborn with a new birth of freedom and it is from that event that we all are alive today. Just as President Lincoln foresaw in the Gettysburg Address, so it came to be in the fullness of time.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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11/19/2007 2:56:23 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: nmh
My second great grand uncle, George Bosworth fought and died at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863. He was part of the 76th NYSV Co. H. He was 23 years old when he died. I found this out when I started doing my family tree. He made the ultimate sacrifice so that our nation could be free....makes me quite proud to know that.
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posted on
11/19/2007 3:00:43 PM PST
by
leenie312
To: adopt4Christ
You might want to do a Google search...I saw on a recent newscast a new photo of Lincoln at Gettysburg has surfaced. Seems a researcher came across it by accident. This would be only the second photo....very rare.
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posted on
11/19/2007 3:00:53 PM PST
by
Dog
(My writer ISN'T on strike...)
To: leenie312
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11/19/2007 3:01:30 PM PST
by
Dog
(My writer ISN'T on strike...)
To: adopt4Christ
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posted on
11/19/2007 3:04:24 PM PST
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Dog
(My writer ISN'T on strike...)
To: adopt4Christ
Lincolns speech may have lasted about 2 min. The speech before his lasted two hours.
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posted on
11/19/2007 3:05:06 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Molly Pitcher
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posted on
11/19/2007 3:06:50 PM PST
by
Dog
(My writer ISN'T on strike...)
To: mdittmar
In thirty minutes or less, or it’s free!..............
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11/19/2007 3:08:20 PM PST
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: mdittmar
Nancy and Harry do not understand these words! "The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
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11/19/2007 3:10:11 PM PST
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Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: mdittmar
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posted on
11/19/2007 3:10:18 PM PST
by
BGHater
(Lead. The MSG for the 21st Century.)
To: mdittmar
I am truly an old geezer. I once met a man who knew (met) Lincoln. He was, of course, a little boy at the time. I met him when he was a docent at the Lincoln Memorial in Springfield Il. right after it opened. Talk about “degrees of separation”.
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11/19/2007 3:11:07 PM PST
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: Red_Devil 232
The two-hour-long speech was given by Edward Everett, a famous orator, who had been the VP candidate on the Constitutional Union ticket in 1860 (John Bell’s running mate). Bell and Everett were supported by former Whigs unwilling to join the Republican Party (which was virtually non-existent in the slaveholding states).
To: leenie312
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11/19/2007 3:12:44 PM PST
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Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: mdittmar
As powerful as the Gettysburg address is, I think that Lincoln’s second inaugural address is the better speech.
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11/19/2007 3:17:28 PM PST
by
Non-Sequitur
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To: Verginius Rufus
Thanks for that information ... Everett and his speech haven’t weatherd history very well.
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11/19/2007 3:18:00 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Don Corleone
I'm you brought up degrees of separation. Robert Todd Lincoln has one of the weirdest links in American History. From wiki:
Presence at assassinations There is coincidence in regard to Lincoln and presidential assassinations. He was either present or was nearby when three of them occurred.
Of course, any other person with similarly close access to presidents and with such active involvement in the Federal government during that period of 36½ years would have had a similar likelihood of being "at or near" these assassinations. However, it is interesting that each time, his presence had been requested by the President in question.
In another odd coincidence, Robert Lincoln was once saved by Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth, from possible serious injury or death. The incident happened at a railroad station in Jersey City in 1863, when Robert was traveling from New York City to Washington, and was recounted by Lincoln in 1909.
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11/19/2007 3:21:51 PM PST
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BGHater
(Lead. The MSG for the 21st Century.)
To: BGHater
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11/19/2007 3:22:42 PM PST
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BGHater
(Lead. The MSG for the 21st Century.)
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