Four score and four years ago our father Philly brought forth on this forum, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great ban war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their forum accounts so that the nation of Forum Korner might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, unbanned and banned, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the unbanned, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored banned members we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these banned shall not have been banned in vain -- that this nation, under Philly, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the forum.
Dedicated to:
@Phony
@Nostalgic
@Weed
@"Z"
May you rest in peace my brothers.
Now we are engaged in a great ban war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their forum accounts so that the nation of Forum Korner might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, unbanned and banned, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the unbanned, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored banned members we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these banned shall not have been banned in vain -- that this nation, under Philly, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the forum.
Dedicated to:
@Phony
@Nostalgic
@Weed
@"Z"
May you rest in peace my brothers.