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Gettysburg address by skeptic 2006-11-19 12:55:59

Today's Loose Parts mentions the Gettysburg Address. So, not being an American, and wanting to get the joke, I googled for the Gettysburg Address text and read it.

Well, it seems to me Lincoln was wrong: the world remembers what he said on the field, but hardly what actually happened on that field and the men who died there. Yeah, it was the American Civil War. Not a clue as to the rest. But even non-Americans know or can easily find out what the Gettysburg Address was.

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  It signalled the death of State's Rights. by Slamlander2004-02-16 02:13:00
    That's a bit tangential to my original post, but by skeptic2004-02-16 02:16:22
      Aside from the constitution, you mean? (n/t) by pas512004-02-16 02:22:58
        Nope. by Naruki2004-02-16 05:58:22
          It could *say* something about those things, by skeptic2004-02-16 06:00:27
            True, it could. by Naruki2004-02-16 06:05:43
              I think it does say something about state religion by skeptic2004-02-16 06:16:36
                Technically... by Naruki2004-02-16 08:11:20
      It's called a Constitution. by Slamlander2004-02-16 02:23:51
        Hmmm.. Why am I suddenly reminded of ... by aix tom2004-02-16 02:31:33
          Isn't allegory wonderful! by stujlaird2004-02-16 03:15:55
        The US was a confederacy, at first by version0.12004-02-16 11:18:05
    One also has to remember that by deadweasle2004-02-16 02:23:59
      One also should remember that by Electric Storm2004-02-16 03:04:48
        Slavery exists in the USA? (n/t) by skeptic2004-02-16 03:14:03
          The Emancipation Proclaimation is just that by Slamlander2004-02-16 03:24:15
            So, if I try to sell you my child or myself, I am by skeptic2004-02-16 05:15:08
              Bull! Slavery HAS BEEN abolished. by NOLAWitch2006-11-19 12:55:59
                except as a punishment for crime whereof the party by Slamlander2004-02-16 06:50:56
                  KaZaA by pin0cchio2004-02-16 07:30:28
                    That slavery you are refering to used by Patch2004-02-16 07:58:54
                Unfortunately they found ways around it by version0.12004-02-16 10:34:09
            Confederacy freed their own slaves? by version0.12004-02-16 10:25:55
          Yep, it's called "Taxes"... <n/t> by Gorgar2004-02-16 10:51:13
            California and Arizona have alot of that goin' on (n/t) by Patch2004-02-16 12:24:04

 

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