Heather, I expected a photograph and your oath to rest this day. Instead, reading Lincoln’s words gave me the chills. All these many decades later, such words DO mean something! Thank you, dear friend, for your love of our history, often bloody and tragic. I will mull over those words today, as I work in my small garden in India.
Heather, I expected a photograph and your oath to rest this day. Instead, reading Lincoln’s words gave me the chills. All these many decades later, such words DO mean something! Thank you, dear friend, for your love of our history, often bloody and tragic. I will mull over those words today, as I work in my small garden in India.
No one remembers the exaggerated oration of Mr. Everett. But everyone remembers Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which was directed outward toward preserving the nation and the liberty and equality of the people. Mr. Everett was there, in his celebrity, to hear himself talk.
Everett got it, and said this to Lincoln shortly afterward, “I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes”
Heather, I expected a photograph and your oath to rest this day. Instead, reading Lincoln’s words gave me the chills. All these many decades later, such words DO mean something! Thank you, dear friend, for your love of our history, often bloody and tragic. I will mull over those words today, as I work in my small garden in India.
No one remembers the exaggerated oration of Mr. Everett. But everyone remembers Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which was directed outward toward preserving the nation and the liberty and equality of the people. Mr. Everett was there, in his celebrity, to hear himself talk.
Everett got it, and said this to Lincoln shortly afterward, “I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes”
Good to know. Thanks for sharing that nugget of information.
Peter Tenney, thank you very much for this valuable addendum.