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This week marks the anniversary of two of the most important events in our nation’s history. On Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. One hundred years and three days later, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated. Today, the nation’s youth remember Lincoln’s speech only through the pages of history; we recall Kennedy’s death through the striking clarity of our parents’ memories. I hope we all take a moment to appreciate the significance of both...
...Gettysburg Address defines America. We read Lincoln’s words and are immediately imbued with a sense of our country’s purpose. Lincoln, however, enunciated his immortal words in an effort to define the civil war. He called the war a test of whether a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal could survive. After a terrible battle, Lincoln reminded America that the soldiers’ lives were not lost in vain. Lincoln gave the nation hope...
...hope that Lincoln awakened at Gettysburg was the same hope extinguished on the day John F. Kennedy died. The assassination ended the promise of the New Frontier. Unlike Lincoln, Kennedy was struck down before he accomplished his mission. That mission remains unfulfilled even today. My generation still searches for a leader who inspires us the way he inspired our parents, who engages us in political discourse, and who brings us all closer to the spirit of the nation...
...tank crewman for 3 1/2 years, then moved to the reserves, where he was a tank commander. About 10 years ago, he joined a civil-affairs unit and worked for the rest of the time as a policeman or a summer ranger in national parks like the one in Gettysburg, Pa. He would have loved to work at Gettysburg full-time, says his ranger colleague Tim Sorber. But a National Park Service rule sets the maximum age for law-enforcement rangers at 35. Chris was already 45 when he started part-time, though he regularly passed the Army's physical...
...long midterm, or “hourly.” Usually consisting of several phrases to be identified (IDs) and a short essay, a midterm attempts to measure the knowledge gained over two months in about 53 minutes. A typical ID asks for the significance of the battle of Gettysburg to a course on war and politics. If you think that’s difficult to explain in five minutes, well, you’re right. Of course, professors don’t really expect students to go into an in-depth analysis—but that?...