Worth reading and thinking about in this country today (just as it was then)-and my take on it today

[The Straight Story]

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.

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No Abe, they did not die in vain. We the people are still here, fighting the good fight. We fight now against the very party you were a member of - oh how far they have fallen.

People are still dying on the battlefield the republicans have created for them, yet this time there is no such noble cause.

Those fighting the good fight are now labeled as hippies and leftists. They have fought the battles for civil rights, they have been jailed and murdered. The battle field which once was a patch of land known as Gettysburg has grown to encompass the land. The shot heard around the world still echoes in our ears as we too fight against the oppression of the few on the many.

The type of fighting has changed since then. It is not with guns we are trying to progress, but with the resolve of the people to come together and effect change through voting and new laws to protect those that so many died for.

Those on the right still see violence as the way to fix issues, but we have seen the carnage of the battlefield and rejected it's premise. We fight now, but not with the weapons that take a life. We fight with our voices on the phone and in marches, we fight with our fingers online and writing letters, we fight with our hands as we cast votes - we learned the lessons of war, and a sad thing it is that some of our citizens have not.

"All men were created equal" but until our fight is over not all will be treated as equal.

[NanceGreggs]

1. Hear, hear!

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[The Straight Story]

2. Thank ya Ma'am

How you been anyway? Have not seen ya much, but not always attentative to things :)