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Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Given on 19Nov1863– That dedicated a Civil War battlefield where over 51,000 Americans died over a 3-day period.
The Battle of Gettysburg started on July 01st, and concluded on July 03rd, 1863. This was one of two major events that occurred during July of 1863, that turned the Civil War. The other significant event that turned the Civil War was the siege of Vicksburg that ended on July 04th, 1863.
One of the most deadliest battles during World War II was the Battle of the Bulge that claimed 19,000 Allied soldiers lives. One of the most famous battles in the Pacific was at Iwo Jima that claimed 6,140 Marines and Sailors. This was where the American Flag was raised on top of Mount Suribachi that Joe Rosenthal immortalized in two photographs.
What was surprising about the Gettysburg Address was that President Lincoln wasn’t the Keynote speaker; that would be unheard of today. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was given in less than two minutes. But the Gettysburg Address that Lincoln didn’t even consider significant in historical perspective at the time, has become the most historical speech that many students recite for their history and civics classes. I even recited the Gettysburg Address as a Boy Scout at age 13.
Lincoln echoed the premise our Founding Fathers had in pinning the Declaration of Independence that All Men are Created Equal and The U.S. Constitution with the Bill of Rights.
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address:
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.
Many soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Airmen have given their last full measure to ensuring the principles that our Forefathers pinned in The Declaration of Independence, the preamble to our U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights would endure now going on for almost 250 years.
Lincoln was underscoring the importance of what these men forefathers sacrificed for what was inscribed in these notable documents, especially in the Declaration of Independence– We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I was just talking to a retired Marine at Barnes & Noble yesterday that was younger than I, where we stated that if called upon again by our country, we would answer the Call to Duty even at our age, me being the age of 67. That is how important our principles are to us that so many have given their last full measure in protecting the concept of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness of others that can’t defend these principles themselves.