Reflecting on Lincoln and the ancient virtue of gratitude, an essential attribute of a free society, Dr. Andrew F. Lang reads the Gettysburg Address as a national expression of gratitude, honoring the past while charging the present to preserve freedom for the future. By situating Lincoln’s rhetoric within the political and military contexts of 1863, the talk connects 1776, 1863, and 2026, just as Lincoln intended.

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