The Address

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.

This week, we passed the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, one of the finest speech given in our nation. Lincoln lifted up the soul of a nation, with all of its bloodshed, and blessed its sacred purpose for our future. Ken Burns, the great Civil War commentator, has set been asking people to memorize the 2 min speech.  A commercial ran on television in which former presidents and other notables recite parts of the speech.  We ought to take the nation's soul to heart and commit its words to memory--Burns says.