150 years....

[dando]

Since The Gettysburgh Address. Know. Your. History.

http://www.learntheaddress.org/

The mashup is the best.

http://www.learntheaddress.org/#_Yzi79zpqQA

The Address coming soon to PBS by Ken Burns.

[gjc2]

I really enjoyed that. The compilation is the best but I liked all the individual readings too, especially Cardinal Timothy Dolan.

Lincoln didn’t think people would remember his speech but here we are commemorating it 7½ score years later.

[Napoleon]

A classic take on the speach:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/02/the-words-that-remade-america/308801/

[nrc]

Needs more Morgan Freeman.

I first visited Gettysburgh at the age of 15. The place and the speech made quite an impression on me.

[TravelGal]

I first visited Gettysburgh at the age of 15. The place and the speech made quite an impression on me.

Me too. About the same age and the same impression. That's why I join every campaign I see to keep developers from its edges. It *is* hallowed ground.

I saw a snippet in our paper that the local Gettysburg paper, still going in some iteration, apologized for calling the speech "silly." Their reporter at the time wasn't as impressed. Did that make it into the movie "Lincoln" I wonder? :)

[Napoleon]

I saw a snippet in our paper that the local Gettysburg paper, still going in some iteration, apologized for calling the speech "silly." Their reporter at the time wasn't as impressed.



Actually it was a paper out of Harrisburg, which is 35 miles away. Here is that paper's apology. (http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/11/a_patriot-news_editorial_retraction_the_gettysburg_address.h tml#incart_flyout_opinion) By the way, the longer background piece they do on their coverage at the time, which is linked to from the apology, is pretty interesting since it gives some great historical background. To put what they said in perspective though one has to realize (as they admit) the paper at that time was a "Copperhead" paper.

[Elmo T]

The place and the speech made quite an impression on me.

We take the kids to Gettysburg several times a year. Words cannot really express the place - nor does a base knowledge of the events there do it justice. Read and read deeply. Walk the grounds with a true understanding of what occurred on those grounds. It is the individual stories that bring it home - not the well known actions - which themselves are heart-wrenching.

And to stand in the National Cemetery where Lincoln gave that address and look across the unknown graves... :(

Good read on the cemetery itself here;

http://www.gettysburgfoundation.org/media/assets/National-Cemetery-brochure.pdf

[TravelGal]

Actually it was a paper out of Harrisburg, which is 35 miles away. Here is that paper's apology. (http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/11/a_patriot-news_editorial_retraction_the_gettysburg_address.h tml#incart_flyout_opinion) By the way, the longer background piece they do on their coverage at the time, which is linked to from the apology, is pretty interesting since it gives some great historical background. To put what they said in perspective though one has to realize (as they admit) the paper at that time was a "Copperhead" paper.

Thank you for the research. :thumbup: The paper in which I saw the article got totted to the trash today so I couldn't look up the article to get the facts straight. Silly ME, I didn't expect there to be thread on OC, where proper references are (thankfully) required.