Never forget.

"deprecated account" (savethei4s)
09/11/2015 at 13:10 • Filed to: None

“The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves.” -Ronald Reagan

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William Byrd > deprecated account
09/11/2015 at 13:18

Visited the Newseum in DC for the first time over labor day weekend. In the 9/11 section there was a very well produced video about the media that were on-site all day. The story of the photograph, as told by the photographer, is pretty interesting.

ttyymmnn > deprecated account
09/11/2015 at 13:25

Reagan’s words have a ring of the Gettysburg Address in them. As it is one of the greatest speeches ever written, and also seems to fit this day, I’ll put it here.

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 battle-field 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 can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not 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 that 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 have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > ttyymmnn
09/11/2015 at 16:13

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here

Not to make light of the day or the speech or anything, but i love this line.

ttyymmnn > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
09/11/2015 at 16:26

It shows how truly humble a man Lincoln was. Lincoln’s was the second address that day at Gettysburg. The first, given by politician and orator Edward Everett, lasted two hours, and nobody remembers a single word he said. Lincoln’s address lasted about two minutes and has gone down in history as one of the greatest statements of purpose ever written.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > ttyymmnn
09/11/2015 at 16:29

Proved in that I had no idea there was another address.

Recommend.

ttyymmnn > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
09/11/2015 at 16:33

Not many people do. Everett’s speech is very much a footnote in history. Writing to Lincoln after the event, Everett said, “I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.”

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > ttyymmnn
09/11/2015 at 16:34

Well, at least he knew when he was beaten.