April 22 (T), 2014 Recorded Address. To my friends, particularly, in Taiwan

Posted on fb, April 19 (Sa), 2014

Echoed Ken Burns' recent video (everyone is encouraged to recite and record the Address. So I did), aired on PBS April 16, 2014. The film tells the story of a tiny school in Putney Vermont, the Greenwood School, where each year the students are encouraged to practice, memorize, and recite the Gettysburg Address. In its exploration of the Greenwood School, the film also unlocks the history, context and importance of President Lincoln’s most powerful address.

In fact, I recorded today (be tolerant with my CUTE accent :)! ) but planned to post on the Earth Day. And you know what - too impatient! So
this is a PRE-post ! Share with you. (And you might have tried it?)

This is a great Teaching-Learning-Sharing experience! I am thinking of developing into a nice hands-on project for student, so this recording serves as a guinea pig.  Also thanks to my colleague prof. Jennifer Heinz. She shares info generously.

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November 19 (Thursday), 1863 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 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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address