GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
Quote for the Day - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address -- June 15, 2010
"Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while travelling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope."
Louis Untermeyer [1885-1977]
Any comments?
Here are my first six:
1) Good thing he had the right address.
2) Was it a comfortable ride?
3) Now that's a way to save the government money. I hear Air Force One is very expensive.
4) Hang on - this could be a tricky ride.
5) Were you able to read your own writing while giving the speech?
6) Others say he wrote and worked on that address a long time before heading for Gettysburg.
1 comment:
The errant grammatical structure of Untermeyer's statement leads me to ask -- How is it that Lincoln could fit on the back of an envelope, let alone travel almost a hundred miles on it?
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