and said i wish i could flatter myself to think i came as close to the central meat of the thing in two hours as did you in two minutes, but it's a very difficult two minutes. he places the word here throughout it all the time. dedicated here that, we're here dedicated, those who died here. it's tough for any of us to internalize. as we watched these boys do it, we said if they can do it all of us ought to be able to do if and if you go to learntheaddress.org, you will see all the living presidents reciting it, david gregory, and many people in our media culture, bill o'reilly and also rachel maddow. nancy pelosi and marco rubio. history is still a table around which we can have civil discourse. lincoln is a great place to start to have a civil discourse. >> you have to remember the context. >> this was four months after a battle that was the most blood soaked military experience the country had had. >> ever, yeah. and it's still the greatest battle ever fought on american soil. 10,000 dead. 56,000 casualties, 185,000 soldiers involved. he comes to the now quiet battlefield to add a few appropriate remarks after edward everett's speech and nails it