Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library | A Modernized Gettysburg Address

​I drew a lot of inspiration from a visit to the "Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum". This is a must-see attraction if you find yourself nearby.

This video is a modern look at the Gettysburg Address. We draw a lot of parallels from the 1860s and today, It's easy to get caught up in divisions and partisan politics. But, it hard to forget Abe Lincoln's words and how we should draw inspiration from them today:

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The Gettysburg Address

"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.

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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."

~ Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

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Trump believes that his immortal rhetoric will one day be thought on a par with the Gettysburg address □□□□□□□□□□□ https://t.co/3hFI4y7RMv

— Simon Schama (@simon_schama) September 7, 2018

in fifth grade i could memorize the whole gettysburg address and now a days i cant even remember what i was about to tweet

— b (@heartvches) October 7, 2018

"You know, when Abraham Lincoln made the Gettysburg Address speech, the great speech, do you know he was ridiculed? He was ridiculed. He took the horse and carriage up from the White House..." (Lincoln took a train to Gettysburg.)

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 18, 2018