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WW2
User ID: 0882114 May 3rd 12:05 PM
If President Abraham Lincoln went to the site of the World Trade Center attacks today, what might he say? The following is a modification of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. The changes are minimal, updated mostly to reflect our modern world rather than the world of 1863. Yet the thoughts are so timely… Ladies and Gentlemen, The President of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln:

Eleven score and 10 years ago, our fathers brought forth upon 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 war against terror . . .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 and women, 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.

alan (uk)
User ID: 1731514 Dec 5th 10:26 AM
"Udder Silliness" - is that a bovine disease ?

Captain Muggles
User ID: 1725214 Dec 10th 9:06 PM
I think Bb is right on this one!

Captain Beeflat 2007
User ID: 1738604 Dec 11th 4:17 AM
Muggers.
Very gracious of you dear old thing. Good to have you back...anticipating lively discourse. :-)

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WW2 User ID: 0882114	May 3rd 12:05 PM If President Abraham Lincoln went to the site of the World Trade Center attacks today, what might he say? The following is a modification of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. The changes are minimal, updated mostly to reflect our modern world rather than the world of 1863. Yet the thoughts are so timely… Ladies and Gentlemen, The President of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln: Eleven score and 10 years ago, our fathers brought forth upon 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 war against terror . . .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 and women, 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.
alan (uk) User ID: 1731514	Dec 5th 10:26 AM "Udder Silliness" - is that a bovine disease ?
Captain Muggles User ID: 1725214	Dec 10th 9:06 PM I think Bb is right on this one!
Captain Beeflat 2007 User ID: 1738604	Dec 11th 4:17 AM Muggers. Very gracious of you dear old thing. Good to have you back...anticipating lively discourse. :-)