Some words I find appropriate

[Matt H]

This is the first thread I've ever started, and I won't say anything myself, but I've found some words I find very appropriate in these dark days for our country. You may well recognise the words you read, but look at them now in conjunction with the pictures you've surely seen the last few days and think about what they mean. Here they are:

"...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, 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 it 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."


A. Lincoln, July 4, 1863.

 

[Apothecary]

Lincoln's words are as good now as when they were first written. The regret is that this tragedy happened to recall this.

Harry

 

[Bill Martino]

Thanks, Matt. Lincoln was right then and he's right now. Right except for this part, "The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."

 

[Cuttin' Craig]

Thanks, Matt. I read those very words this past Sunday on the monument in the cemetary in Gettysburg. Little did I realize what pertinence it would have once again two days later.

-Craig

 

[Matt H]

Thanks, guys. I was just trying to find something to sum up things, and those words just stuck out. I'm a southernor and some of us still have mixed feelings about Lincoln but I really thought it was even more appropriate now than it was then.

 

[Bill Martino]

Right now there's no southerners, northerners, or anything else -- there's just us -- a bunch of Americans trying to get our feelings sorted out and trying to figure out what we should do next.

 

[Matt H]

I agree, uncle, but right now I think most of know exactly what to do next.

 

[Bill Martino]

I know what I want to do but I am not sure if it would be the wisest action. I need time -- like most, I believe -- to settle down and start thinking well rather than using emotion driven thinking.