Did you know the Gettysburg address was delivered on this day in 1863?

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American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Response by SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL made Nov 19 at 2015 7:50 AM

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SSgt Alex Robinson, I did not know that thanks, for the significant date in our Nations history.

Response by Col Joseph Lenertz made Nov 19 at 2015 8:02 AM

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Heard it on the radio on the way in this morning. What a great speech!

Response by SGT Dana Williams made Nov 19 at 2015 8:45 AM

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In all likelihood, the greatest political speech ever made. Afterward, Edward Everett, the keynote speaker, said to Lincoln "my dear sir, if I could have said in two hours what you stated in two minutes, I would have been a success!" It's sorta' ironic that Lincoln said "few will note, nor long remember, what we say here ..."

Response by Cpl Jeff N. made Nov 19 at 2015 8:57 AM

2015-11-19T08:57:53-05:00

Our modern day politicians would do well to emulate Lincoln's ability to deliver so much with so few words. The speech given prior to Lincoln's that day lasted 2 hours and no one remembers it.

Response by CPL(P) Bret Farritor made Nov 19 at 2015 10:26 AM

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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 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.