A short photo slide show...
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.
Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
3 comments:
I like the slide show video you made! that's a neat idea/way to show pictures! Is Dave's family related to John Sachs?
I bet this was somewhat of a somber place to visit, but neat all at the same time. Especially for someone Alyssa's age... it's so fascinating getting to visit in person, the places you study and read about in History.
John Sachs is not a relative that we are aware of. His memorial was very prominent right in an aisle, we couldn't possibly have passed it without noticing it, so we took a photograph.
Interestingly, there was a Davidson right near it. So close, but not quite...
It was a very quiet, somber, and peaceful place to visit.
Cute picture of all the girls!! Is it just me, or are you starting to look Hawaiian too? :) They say after so many years of marriage, you start resembling your spouse!
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