Friday, February 12, 2010

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

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"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a Shred nation, conceived in Powder, and dedicated to the proposition that all Snow Sliders are created equal."

 

To celebrate President's Week, we are running a special promotion on Friday February 12th.  On this day we will give anyone who can come out and recite the Gettysburg Address correctly and in its entirety, a free All Access Lift Ticket good for that day.

 

To participate, just stop by Guest Services in either Cobblestone Village or South Lodge and check in with the representatives there.  We'll give you three chances to get it right, so start studying up now.

 

We know it looks daunting, but there are some natural breaks in the text if you study it.  Break it up into sections for memorization and it will be a piece of cake.

 

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Lincoln's 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 battle-field 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."