We decided to not go into DC today, but instead drive to Gettysburg. Aunt Laura (Amy's sister) had given us the "Auto-Tour CD" she just purchased earlier this week while she and Garret went there. While driving the "2-3 hour" auto tour (which took us a little over 5.5 hours - that's just because were slow and like to get out and read a lot of the plaques of information along the way), it put into perspective the importance of this specific battle, the fact that more US troops died in the Civil war than in both WWI and WWII combined, and how one race to "little top" on July 2nd was such a victory for the North even though both sides had many casualties. Then Pickett's charge (after 2 hours of artillery fire from both sides had quieted down) from the south sent 150,000 infantry troops across open field to attempt to take the point held by the North called 'The Angle', only 150 men from the South made it over the wall of 'The Angle' and fought hand to hand and actually became the 'High Water Mark' of the south, but when they pursued further were gunned down by another regiment of the North. This failed charge on July 3rd caused the South to retreat on July 4th.
Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm that only took 2 minutes to give after another speaker spoke for 2 hours prior to him speaking - not much is remembered about the prior speaker's 2 hour discourse, but every word of Abraham Lincoln's speech is remembered by students today, and his penciled copy he wrote himself on paper is in a museum (no speech writer for this president). Beth, Todd, and Abby quoted from memory his speech they had memorized this year, while we were in the cemetery. His speech left such an expression of awe, that no one said anything afterward, and Lincoln initially thought it was a flop. Only sometime afterward had he realized it was significant. I admire this president who did not start the war, but for the sake of the union, and for the sake of the slaves, called to arms the North for both of these purposes.
After seeing Gettysburg (the turning point of the Civil War), and the Holocaust Museum where over 6,000,000 Jews were killed, it made us think of what terrible wicked thing our current times face - our thoughts turned to abortion - an accepted 'norm' today like slavery was when Lincoln began his presidency, but a great evil - the killing of over 45 million humans for profit, over 7 times more deaths than the Holocaust caused! http://www.abortionfacts.com/literature/literature_927hh.asp
We pray for a president that will stand up to this great evil in our time. The slogan of the Holocaust Museum is 'never again', but it is still happening around us. American slaves have been set free because of a terrible civil battle that took place and cost many lives for their freedom; The double-agent spy that made Normandy's D-Day invasion of the Allies a victory against Hitler; what will it look like for the deliverance of our current day Holocaust? I don't know, but I do pray that the Lord Jesus Christ will forgive our nation of its wickedness, wake up Americans to this Holocaust, and change the outcome of this current day evil - that is being accepted by most of us - may our eyes be opened to see, and our will be enabled to act as He would direct us to do so.
Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm that only took 2 minutes to give after another speaker spoke for 2 hours prior to him speaking - not much is remembered about the prior speaker's 2 hour discourse, but every word of Abraham Lincoln's speech is remembered by students today, and his penciled copy he wrote himself on paper is in a museum (no speech writer for this president). Beth, Todd, and Abby quoted from memory his speech they had memorized this year, while we were in the cemetery. His speech left such an expression of awe, that no one said anything afterward, and Lincoln initially thought it was a flop. Only sometime afterward had he realized it was significant. I admire this president who did not start the war, but for the sake of the union, and for the sake of the slaves, called to arms the North for both of these purposes.
After seeing Gettysburg (the turning point of the Civil War), and the Holocaust Museum where over 6,000,000 Jews were killed, it made us think of what terrible wicked thing our current times face - our thoughts turned to abortion - an accepted 'norm' today like slavery was when Lincoln began his presidency, but a great evil - the killing of over 45 million humans for profit, over 7 times more deaths than the Holocaust caused! http://www.abortionfacts.com/literature/literature_927hh.asp
We pray for a president that will stand up to this great evil in our time. The slogan of the Holocaust Museum is 'never again', but it is still happening around us. American slaves have been set free because of a terrible civil battle that took place and cost many lives for their freedom; The double-agent spy that made Normandy's D-Day invasion of the Allies a victory against Hitler; what will it look like for the deliverance of our current day Holocaust? I don't know, but I do pray that the Lord Jesus Christ will forgive our nation of its wickedness, wake up Americans to this Holocaust, and change the outcome of this current day evil - that is being accepted by most of us - may our eyes be opened to see, and our will be enabled to act as He would direct us to do so.
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