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Yesterday was the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. And to mark Lincoln’s historic, moving speech, President Obama sat down and penned a very personal, handwritten tribute for display at the Lincoln Presidential Library.
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Statistics: Posted by Gary Triplett — Wed Nov 20, 2013 6:23 pm
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War is hell. Audie Murphy (1925–1971), one of the most famous and decorated American combat soldiers of World War II, said as much in his book To Hell and Back. While considered a war “hero” and recipient of the Medal of Honor, Murphy was deeply affected by his time in the military:
“His first wife, Wanda Hendrix, stated that he once held her at gunpoint. She witnessed her husband being moved to tears by newsreel footage of German war orphans, guilt-ridden that his war actions might have been the cause of their having no parents.”
We just “celebrated” Abraham Lincoln’s delivery of the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln is considered to be our nation’s greatest president by liberals and conservatives alike even though he presided over America’s most destructive war.
Historians believe the combined Union and Confederate death toll was around 750,000. The number could be higher if we had Confederate war records, most of which “vanished with their defeat.” Thomas Fleming writes in his new book on the Civil War, A Disease of the Public Mind:
“This much is certain: more soldiers died in the four year struggle than the nation lost in all her previous and future wars combined.”
Read More at godfatherpolitics.com . By Gary DeMar.
A butter sculpture of President Abraham Lincoln will share the dairy-centric spotlight this year with the world-famous butter cow at the Iowa State Fair.
Organizers announced Monday that a sculpture of Lincoln, along with a replica of the Lincoln Highway Bridge in central Iowa, will be on display in a 40-degree cooler when the fair opens in August.
It will take sculptor Sarah Pratt three weeks and 1,000 pounds of regular salted butter to create the pieces. She says she’s unsure how she’ll depict Lincoln.
The companion sculptures, which change every year, are marking anniversaries. It’s been 150 years since Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address. The historic Lincoln Highway, which stretches from New York to San Francisco, is 100 years old.
The fair runs Aug. 8 to Aug. 18.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox US News
One of five known manuscripts of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is going on display at the Library of Congress.
Beginning Friday, the library will display the John Hay copy of the famous Civil War speech. It will be shown fox six weeks through May 4 in the “Civil War in America” exhibition.
The exhibit commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War through writings and firsthand accounts. It’s been extended from its original closing date in June to remain open until January 2014.
Lincoln’s 1863 Gettysburg Address began with the words, “Four score and seven years ago.”
The Hay copy is believed to be the second draft of the speech. Lincoln gave it to Hay, one of his two secretaries. The library holds two copies of the speech.
The Library of Congress plans to display a copy of the Gettysburg Address over a six-week period starting later this month.
The John Hay copy is one of five known manuscript drafts of President Abraham Lincoln‘s famous 1863 address, which began with the words, “Four score and seven years ago.”
It will be on display in the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building from March 22 to May 4 as part of the “Civil War in America” exhibition.
That exhibition, which commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, will be extended until Jan. 4.
The Hay copy is believed to be the second draft of the speech. Lincoln gave it to Hay, one of his two secretaries.
By hnn
In anticipation of larger than usual crowds expected at Gettysburg for the annual Remembrance Day parade, planners have moved the event to the weekend of Nov. 23, a week later than had been scheduled.
This year is the 150th anniversary of both the battle in July and Remembrance Day in November, the day President Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address. The parade is very popular with visitors and residents and draws thousands of smartly dressed reenactors who march in military units through the city.
Planners say the change was made to better accommodate “lodging requirements.”…
Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University
