Today, we are engaged in a life-or-death emergency, with nothing less than our heritage, our Democratic Republic at stake.
Will we summon up courage enough to survive as a nation, "...conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal"?
The Trumpist-Fascist Republican Party is now actively supporting anarchy, the overthrow of our Constitutional government. And, now, Trump and his sycophants have declared admiration for Putin as “genius” and “very savvy", as he invades the Ukraine.
As it was for my father and mother's generation and their ancestors before them, the crucial question was... Whether keeping our nation alive is worth fighting for. Today, that question is now ours, as well, to answer.
Will we stand up for ourselves and fight to preserve our democracy? Will we resolve that these dead (our ancestors) shall not have died in vain? “That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom”? “That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"?
In a few days hence we will choose our destiny... our answer.
What will it be?
Will we become "craven cowards" or choose "love and duty"?
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 battlefield 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 cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot 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.
Abraham Lincoln, 19 Nov 1863
High Noon (1952) Official Trailer - Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly Movie HD
Do not forsake me, oh, my darling - Tex Ritter original soundtrack High Noon
High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) Song by Tex Ritter
Do not forsake me, oh my darlin'
On this, our weddin' day
Do not forsake me, oh my darlin'
Wait, wait along
I do not know what fate awaits me
I only know I must be brave
And I must face a man who hates me
Or lie a coward, a craven coward
Or lie a coward in my grave
Oh, to be torn twixt love and duty
S'posin', I lose my fair haired beauty
Look at that big hand move along
Nearin', high noon
He made a vow while in state prison
Vowed it would be my life or his'n
I'm not afraid of death but, oh
What will I do if you leave me?
Do not forsake me, oh my darlin'
You made that promise as a bride
Do not forsake me, oh my darlin'
Although you're grievin', don't think of leavin'
Now that I need you by my side
Wait along, wait along
(Wait along)
Wait along, wait along
(Wait along, wait along, wait along, wait along)
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Tiomkin Dimitri / Washington Ned
High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) lyrics © Volta Music Corp.
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