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MILITARY HISTORY OF PIERCE COUNTY

Created by John Charles Bryant Adopted in 1976

Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln, 19 November 1863

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 this 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 here dedicated 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.

American Revolution 1775-1783

 

War Between The States 1861-1865

 

Spanish American War 1898

 

World War I 1914-1917

 

War World II  1941-1945

 

Korean War  1950-1953

 

Vietnam War 1962-1972

 

Persian Gulf War

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PCHGS Website Created August 1999
Military History Section created October 1999
Last Updated: Thursday, 15 June 2000
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