Can't read this out loud without my voice breaking at the last sentence. And I'm not even American. The nobility of the sentiments, and the call to action, is so moving.
I wonder if Lincoln's model was the oration of Pericles on the first Athenian dead of the Peloponnesian war. It's almost a distillation of that speech; 'this is the ideal they fought for, and this is the fight we the living must now take up"
Our time indeed.
My favorite memorial in Washington D. C. is Lincoln’s.
Can't read this out loud without my voice breaking at the last sentence. And I'm not even American. The nobility of the sentiments, and the call to action, is so moving.
I wonder if Lincoln's model was the oration of Pericles on the first Athenian dead of the Peloponnesian war. It's almost a distillation of that speech; 'this is the ideal they fought for, and this is the fight we the living must now take up"
Amen to that Professor.
Super inspiring