The 4th of July........

Hello Dear World......

How are you ? It was another sweltering day here in Georgia not that I'm complaining. Although it would be nice to have a long,soaking rain at least not until after the holiday. I hope you all had a really nice Sunday.

I would like to share a little note with you. On Tuesday it will be the 4th of July which is usually celebrated with fireworks, parties, parades, balloons or other such events. I thought I would share with the Gettysburg Address. In a historical note it is known that one of the most decisive battles of the Civil War was fought near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in July 1863. In November of that year, people gathered for the dedication of a cemetery where thousands of men had died. Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication for almost ( 2 ) hours. His remarks are known as the Gettysburg Address. I would like to share it with you.

Gettysburg Address

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 battlefield 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 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 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 the 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 havea new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

- 1863

Here is some sites you might want to check out dear world:

www.usacitylink.com/usa/

http://www.fourth-of-july-celebrations.com/

As Thomas Jefferson once wrote:

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. - Thomas Jefferson September 8, 1817

So dear world I hope that you will have a wonderful week and I would like to know how things are in your neck of the woods. Until we talk again.......

Good night and lots of sweet dreams