This Is the Way
Two Minutes Dedicated to Eternity
By Robin Webber
How do you explain the unexplainable? How do you make sense out of the senseless? When such times come, and come they will, you had better know what truly comprises the fabric of your being. A look back in history can provide answers for what lies ahead.
Nearly 140 years ago, in the midst of the American Civil War, one man had to reach deep to inspire his exhausted countrymen to move beyond the weary moment of frustration into the bright hope of tomorrow. His message lasted only two minutes. The entirety of his life's work and the stated purpose for his nation's existence was summed up in 266 words, encased in a mere 10 sentences. What many consider to be the greatest speech in American history was offered as a dedication to the dead and to those who remained alive after the western hemisphere's greatest battle. What events led to Abraham Lincoln's speech on that cold November day?
A three-day, life-and-death struggle
Four months before, great bands of soldiers were surging from Virginia into Maryland. General Robert E. Lee wanted to take the fight directly into the North with the hope that a major victory on Union soil would crush his opponent's desire to maintain the war effort. But both armies had lost sense of one another's movements. It was a tense time.
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- _A Heart Beyond the Hurt
- _Forgiving the Unforgivable
- _Book Review: The Great Republic: A History of America
- _Lincoln: President and Prophet?
- _Forgiving the Unforgivable
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