Thank you for this great reminder of the remarkable courage it took and the price that was paid to found this nation. In the great affluence of our day, it's so easy to take it all for granted. This article is a great way to pass on the stories to my children and my grandchildren, who I pray will not become apathetic about these great people and the legacy they have left us. How important it is for us to pay the price needed to be well informed and to guard the priceless freedoms that we have inherited. We cannot afford to leave to to others, for too many of us are not even voting!!
SillieGanderJuly 25, 2017
The conduct of the founders in this particular instance marked true what John Fitzgerald Kennedy Senior (1917 - 1963) stated on Friday, January 20, 1961:
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country!"
It was Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) who further stated in support of our founding fathers on Thursday, November 19, 1863:
"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 battle-field 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 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."
May all human beings hold true to these principals!
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LeslieJuly 25, 2017
Thank you for this great reminder of the remarkable courage it took and the price that was paid to found this nation. In the great affluence of our day, it's so easy to take it all for granted. This article is a great way to pass on the stories to my children and my grandchildren, who I pray will not become apathetic about these great people and the legacy they have left us. How important it is for us to pay the price needed to be well informed and to guard the priceless freedoms that we have inherited. We cannot afford to leave to to others, for too many of us are not even voting!!
SillieGanderJuly 25, 2017
The conduct of the founders in this particular instance marked true what John Fitzgerald Kennedy Senior (1917 - 1963) stated on Friday, January 20, 1961: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country!" It was Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) who further stated in support of our founding fathers on Thursday, November 19, 1863: "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 battle-field 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 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." May all human beings hold true to these principals!
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