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...example of the shifting standards applied to public addresses, he mentioned former University President Edward Everett, who Schama said spoke for two hours before Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address...
Abdul Rashid Dostum, the thuggish Afghan warlord, would not seem a likely student of Abraham Lincoln. But there he was, echoing the Gettysburg Address as he spoke recently to a large political gathering in northern Afganistan. His speech was a booming appeal for a future that offered Afghans "government by the people, for the people." To accompany his new rhetoric, Dostum also has a new look. The powerfully built Uzbek general has shaved his beard--his thick trademark moustache remains--bought some new neckties and found a good tailor...
...families of victims consider Shanksville first and foremost a mass grave. When they speak of the site's future, some invoke Arlington or Gettysburg; others want their own private place to mourn. But to most, a memorial conveys a measure of finality that is still too much to bear. "The shock keeps me living in perpetual rawness," says Kimi Beaven, whose husband Alan perished on Flight 93. "As much as I would love to put my heart and mind around my husband's final resting place, I would far rather just let it be the peaceful place that...
Abdul Rashid Dostum, the thuggish Afghan warlord, would not seem a likely student of Abraham Lincoln. But there he was, echoing the Gettysburg Address as he spoke recently to a large political gathering in northern Afganistan. His speech was a booming appeal for a future that offered Afghans "government by the people, for the people." To accompany his new rhetoric, Dostum also has a new look. The powerfully built Uzbek general has shaved his beard - his thick trademark moustache remains - bought some new neckties and found a good tailor...
...would not be the first time that a monument to war dead were composed of words. The most beautiful memorial ever imagined was probably the Gettysburg Address, whose power partly derived from a feeling of proximity to those killed in the war from which Memorial Day originated. This conscious desire to be closer to the dead started showing up in more concrete structures with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, which invites us to run our fingertips over the names of our countrymen, in effect to touch the dead. The architect, Maya Lin, said that the wall gives off reflections...