A 2012 Address

A 2012 Address

Eleven score and eight 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 struggle between Liberty and

and communism, testing whether this nation, or any nation so

conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a

great battlefield of the mind and heart of that struggle.

We have come to dedicate ourselves as the final line of protection

against the godless menace of communism for all those who have given

their lives for this nation. It is altogether fitting and proper that

we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate

this struggle. The brave men and women who struggled before us and

are yet struggling, 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 those man and

women have done for our freedoms. It is for us the living, rather, to

be dedicated to the unfinished work which they who fought for us have

thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated

to the great task remaining before us—that from our 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.

With Thanks to Abraham Lincoln

(Dedicated to my brother, Malcolm Dillard Carroll and his shipmates, who gave their lives for this country and its inhabitants, serving on the submarine USS Herring in the Second World War).

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