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The Gettysburg Address

Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 8:11 am
by ktulu
150 years later. Honored in LEGO!

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Re: The Gettysburg Address

Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 9:39 am
by BRWombat
You know Lincoln's finally a big deal when there's a Lego version of him.

Re: The Gettysburg Address

Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 10:25 am
by ktulu
BRWombat wrote:You know Lincoln's finally a big deal when there's a Lego version of him.
There is an official minifig coming out next year in the Series 12 of the collectible minifigs based on the LEGO Movie.

Re: The Gettysburg Address

Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 10:31 am
by WEDFan
I just recently finished Team of Rivals so I'm in the Lincoln mode. The address was quite the speech, and contrasted with the usual very long addresses of the time (and Edward Everett's earlier in the program) it was a masterpiece of meaning and brevity.
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 this 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.