Showing posts with label Gettysburg National Cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gettysburg National Cemetery. Show all posts

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

The Gettysburg Address – some speeches are more equal than others!

Occasionally, just occasionally, a moment in history transcends the context of the moment it existed in. 150 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most important, and most referenced, speeches in history. It wasn’t a long speech. It wasn’t a well-written piece of oratory. But it captured the spirit of the birth of a united nation.