Hi there. Hope you’ve been well. Thanks for the great feedback. I planned on making this week’s newsletter about little league baseball as so many are running back and forth to baseball, softball, and soccer (in between the raindrops where I live).
But, then, we got to talking at dinner last night about Memorial Day. I started googling and pointing and clicking and I came across Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. All I actually remembered was the first line … and then I read it for the first time probably since junior high.
It’s beautiful. I don’t know if it will make you laugh, but as we head into Memorial Day, I hope you think of someone you love who’s helped to keep this country safe, and you smile.
Thanks for remembering.
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.
Amen. Alleluia. I’m not including a super-secret Epic Dental password coupon this week. I said at the beginning I wouldn’t do it all the time. Hope that’s okay with you. It just didn’t feel right after sharing the Gettysburg Address. I would feel pretty confident about finding one next time, though. 
This week’s links celebrate the start of Summer.
Can’t wait to see what comes our way next! It’ll be the Father’s Day edition of Something To Smile About.
So - send me something to smile about! See you next time.
Dedicated to the Great Task.
Lynn P.
Editor
Something To Smile About
