I was disturbed yesterday by a report that a commentator at CNN criticised Pres. Trump for considering making his nomination acceptance speech at Gettysburg b/c the battlefield memorializes Confederate war heroes. Has our nation lost its history?
I’ll remind everyone that Gettysburg is not simply a place, nor a just an old battleground that today memorializes thousands of men on both sides of the conflict who lost their lives in the battle. No, Gettysburg is also a short, two or three minute speech, given by Pres. Lincoln
That remarkable address quickly found its way around the world and was read by tens of millions of freedom loving people. It is among the purest expressions of what our nation, and freedom loving nations everywhere, should aspire to.
In a short two to three minutes Lincoln recast for all time the Union’s purpose in fighting what was at the time among the bloodiest wars ever fought. That purpose was to achieve “a new birth of freedom” in which ALL men could achieve the highest standards of freedom and equality
... - aspirations found in the Declaration of Independence. Lincoln elevated those aspirations into the cornerstone of what our Constitution - a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” is designed to achieve. Let no one - not the media, not politicians, ...
and not adherents of a new “woke” culture - steer us away from Lincoln’s words- “ the most elequent articulation of the democratic vision ever written.” https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/lincoln-delivers-gettysburg-address
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