June 14, 2005

June 14, 1775

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Happy 230th Birthday, US Army!

Posted by Val Prieto at June 14, 2005 10:16 AM

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Posted by: George L. Moneo at June 14, 2005 10:37 AM

These words are as true today as they were at
Gettysburg, November 19, 1863

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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Posted by: Kathleen at June 14, 2005 11:53 AM

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure
To one of the KaSStro cultists, this would have benn considered an extremist Miami Mafia statement.

Posted by: KillCastro at June 14, 2005 06:37 PM


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