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 de
for the people. shall not perish from the earth. now, i was privileged, mr. burns is a great author and a good guy. and the address for the ages, as they said about abraham lincoln is superb. you can see the whole gettysburg address deal on learntheaddress.org. it is well worth it to do so. the factor tip of the day. and that is it for us, check out the factor website, which is totally different than billo reilly.com. also, spout out about anything in the world. o reillyfoxnews.com. and word of the day, do not be a jobbernoll, when writing to the factor. all right, tomorrow, the writing
for the people. shall not perish from the earth. now, i was privileged, mr. burns is a great author and a good guy. and the address for the ages, as they said about abraham lincoln is superb. you can see the whole gettysburg address deal on learntheaddress.org. it is well worth it to do so. the factor tip of the day. and that is it for us, check out the factor website, which is totally different than billo reilly.com. also, spout out about anything in the world. o reillyfoxnews.com. and word of the day, do not be a jobbernoll, when writing to the factor. all right, tomorrow, the writing sector, if you re mad as hell
these americans. we are live from gettysburg is ken burn and creator of the address and he did the program we watched there and another one coming out in april on pbs. what a day it must be. you got all five living preside presidents to participate. i made a video with kids with learning disabilities and i was impressed by them memorizing the gettysburg address i started learntheaddress.org and got people from both sides of the
sure enough they confirmed the gettysburg address. president lincoln delivered it 150 years ago this month. actual anniversary is next week. president lincoln delivered that brief, gorgeous speech right in the middle of the civil war, dedicating a cemetery on the side of a battlefield that had seen tremendous loss of american life. you might have had to memorize the address in school, a lot of kids do it. not that hard to memorize. a lot of the lines are already so memorable. there aren t that many lines. it s short. well, this is learntheaddress.org. spearheaded by ken burns. learn the address. anybody interested, recite it on video and upload it. very, very cool. learn the address put out a mashup of some videos they collected of people reading the speech. it is awesome. and i am in a tiny bit of it. which is really cool. i want to show this to you. this is still not the best new thing in the world today. that comes after. here s what they put out.