Sunday, May 29, 2011

Culpeper National Cemetery - Inscription Honoring Gettysburg

The embossment at the entrance to the Culpeper National Cemetery honors the Address by President Lincoln at the Dedication of The Gettysburg National Cemetery on November 19, 1863. The address begins:

 "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".....

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