STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Tuesday, 2 July 2013

[Tansy_Gold]

1. But we HAVE forgotten

Am I the only one here -- probably not -- who remembers some of the DU battles over "Southern heritage"?



It's not just that we've forgotten what "they" did at Gettysburg; it's that the cartoonist would leave us thinking that's the end of it. But it isn't. Because Lincoln wasn't just commemorating the dead; he was challenging the living and the yet to come:

"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."


That work is still unfinished. And that government is very close to death.