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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

    Sesquicentennial


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Tue Nov 19, 2013 at 08:59:07 AM EST
    Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Michigan, Republican Party, Gettysburg Address, Under God (all tags)

    150 years ago, our president, and the flag bearer of a rogue party, (founded "under the oaks" nearly 10 years earlier in Michigan) gave his most notable speech.

    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.

    Abraham Lincoln - November 19, 1863

    Emphasis mine.

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