Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Adress

hmmm, after all these days of curiosity over the Gettysburg address of lincoln(in a landmark i read that it had some very minimum words...) i read it today... it was nice, and i even tried to speak it as he would have spoken, but since i have never heard him speak i cannot confirm weather i was close enough or far away from the way he spoke, Ok, for all those who have not read, i am posting it here.. (copied from here)


Four score and seven 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 civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it 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 can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. 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 here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

also, i did get some thing funny related with this, a nice imagination it was, What if Abe had used a power point to drive his speech, instead of his oratorical skills. a nice one take a look at it. also do read the makin of the presentation...

http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm



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