'Our Last Independence Day, July 4, 2024?' -- The National Flag at Antietam (MD) July 4, 2004
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln on the Gettysburg (PA) battlefield urged the people of his era to “take increased devotion to that cause for which they [the Union soldiers killed at the July 1863 battle] 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.”
'Our Last Independence Day, July 4, 2024?' -- The National Flag at Antietam (MD) July 4, 2004
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln on the Gettysburg (PA) battlefield urged the people of his era to “take increased devotion to that cause for which they [the Union soldiers killed at the July 1863 battle] 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.”