Posted on 09/11/2006 8:35:59 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
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
thx!
They are all the same to me imho... Just different names..
The actor, yes....Masood, NO...he was assassinated 2 days before 9/11 in 2001. In fact, I was following the destruction of the Buddas in Afghanistan quite closely at the time, and I remember the news about Massouds death...and thinking what a shame it was...
Oh, if I had only known...
Welcome to FreeRepublic!
"....since I found out that 2 Republican Intelligence Committee members voted WITH the dems, to publish a total SHAM opinion on the Senate Intel. Committee report...which put the DEMS opinion the majority!!"
Got names for the scumbags?
Those 2 would be Chuck "I want to be POTUS" Hagel...and Olympia Snowe.
Well the only to get rid of those two dopes is in the primary....
Snowe and Hagel.
Reading the OpEds from the Boston Globe and NYT this morning, and seeing some of the talking heads spinning over the weekend as really confirmed that to me.
TY.
I needed someplace else to vent other than my wife's ear.
Looks like I found the right place!
Morning Johnnie. Hope you had a great weekend. God Bless all that where taken from us today and their families.
I just saw a thread with the ratings...and it seems a lot of Americans really don't care after all...
Football beat the movie by quite a bit...
Hopefully those football heads recorded the movie for viewing later. That is what my hubby did. He chose the Giants over the movie. I was not upset because I know he will watch it this week. Good the Giant's lost!
Sure is hard to believe it's been five years. Every year it's like that day all over again. Horrible. Anyone who is against the war truly just must not get it.
500 Taliban killed.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/11/afghanistan.fighting.ap/index.html
Locked...Cocked...and Ready to Rock.
Hagel couldn't get my dog's vote.
Like your tag line.
Masoud was assassinated by a suicide terrorist posing as a "journalist" on Sept. 9, 2001. It was a great loss to the Afghani people and to the US.
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