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[交流] 【Share】This is America- 'Lincoln Portrait' Music of Copland, Words of a Leader

RICH KLEINFELDT: Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth American president. He is considered one of the greatest leaders of all time. Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky in eighteen nine. He grew up in Illinois. His family was poor and had no education.
  Abraham Lincoln taught himself what he needed to know. He became a lawyer. He served in the Illinois state legislature and in the United States Congress. In eighteen sixty, he was elected to the country's highest office.
  President Lincoln led the United States during the Civil War between the northern and southern states. This was the most serious crisis in American history.
  President Lincoln helped end slavery in the nation. And he helped keep the American union from splitting apart during the war. President Lincoln believed that he proved to the world that democracy can be a lasting form of government.
  In eighteen sixty-three, President Lincoln gave what became his most famous speech. Union armies of the North had won two great victories that year. They defeated the Confederate armies of the South at Vicksburg, Mississippi and at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
  Ceremonies were held to honor the dead soldiers at a burial place on the Gettysburg battlefield.
  President Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg for only about two minutes. But his speech has never been forgotten. Historians say the speech defined Americans as a people who believed in freedom, democracy and equality.
  Abraham Lincoln wrote some of the most memorable words in American history. He was murdered a few days after the Civil War ended in eighteen sixty-five. Yet his words live on.
  Here is 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 battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. 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 hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.
  It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain: that the nation, 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.
                                                                                             by Abraham Lincoln

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