Ever since I taught my daughter about the presidents she has been obsessed with Washington and Lincoln. She has read several books about them, and watched several biography's too. For her birthday she wants a portrait of both and a framed copy of the Constitution. So when we went shopping last weekend , she found this mask and I bought it for her. This is a post in honor of my daughter and President Lincoln.
The Gettysburg Address
November 19, 1863
Fourscore and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth upon 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 other nation so conceived and so dedicated,
can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield
of that war.
We have comet to didicate 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 cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we
cannot 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, not 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, and for the people, shall not perish
from the earth.
Delivered at Gettysburg Pennsylvania
