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| So much for hallowed ground; A Gettysburg Casino? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 4 2006, 04:30 PM (125 Views) | |
| jon-nyc | Apr 4 2006, 04:30 PM Post #1 |
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Cheers
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/04/us/04cnd...r=1&oref=slogin |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| justme | Apr 4 2006, 04:35 PM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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oh my. We used to live about 20 miles south of Gettysburg. My kids literally grew up in Gettysburg. This is sad. It was way too "touristy" even 10 years ago. The beauty of Gettysburg IMHO is the "peace" one finds there. Ironic, I know. |
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"Men sway more towards hussies." G-D3 | |
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| JBryan | Apr 4 2006, 07:06 PM Post #3 |
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I am the grey one
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil 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 lives that that nation 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, living and dead, 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 living, 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 dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Horace | Apr 4 2006, 07:23 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Hit me. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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