"Seven score and ten years ago, the forefathers of this media institution brought forth to its audience a judgment so flawed, so tainted by hubris, so lacking in the perspective history would bring, that it cannot remain unaddressed in our archives."
One fascinating historical note is that Brian Williams was there for the whole address. Who knew?
Beautiful speech, but the War Between the States had nothing to do with preventing government of, buy and for the people from perishing.
The Southern states had no desire to impose their will upon the North.
Either Lincoln knew he was being false in this, or he truly was crazy.
The advantage of the Gettysburg Address is that it's easier to memorize than the Declaration of Independence.
Arguably I guess this was the last timeframe in which this country was this f’d up.
The only difference in the hate level between then and now is that we are not yet killing each other by the hundreds upon hundreds of thousands!
Almost sounds like the speech Jackson gave before the International Military Tribunal at the beginning of the MIT trials after WW2 in Nuremberg.
The paper was right. It was absolutely silly to talk about what happened "four score and seven years ago" when what you were commemorating was the exact opposite of what you were doing.
The Confederates were trying to gain independence, and Lincoln was trying to stop them. Talking about 1776 just reminds people that the good guys were the people who broke away from the United Kingdom, not the ones that tried to stop them.
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