NO.10388623
ADDRESS in Japan (THE NAGATA-CHO ADDRESS)
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0 名前：Abrauri Rincoln：2004/02/03 06:13
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THE NAGATA-CHO ADDRESS:
Three thousand years ago our ancestry brought forth on this islands
a new tribe, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition
that all persons are created equal. Now we are engaged in a smug
imbecile war, testing whether that nation or any nation so con-
ceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a smug
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 the common sense of the world, we
cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.
The slapdash persons, living and dead who struggled here have con-
secrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world
will little note and soon forget what we say here, moreover it can
never remember what they did here. It is for us the living rather
to be dedicated here to the unfinished job which they who fought
here have thus far so staggeringly advanced. It is rather for us to
be here dedicated to the smug 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 Goddess shall have a new birth of ignorant people,
and that government of the people, by the people, for me shall not
perish from the earth.