Gettysburg Address revisited
As part of the America’s 250th anniversary celebration in our community , I’m going to be reciting the Gettysburg Address.
As I have been studying up, I noted the following themes which seem as relevant today as they did when Lincoln spoke them in 1863:
1. Our founders conceived the importance to our nation of liberty and equality.
2. There are battlefields where our dead should be honored and that this honor requires the living to be dedicated to their unfinished work.
3. That this nation “shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.”