Prez Lincoln

I have never really paid any attention to the Gettysburg address. I know that it is a very touching speech at a very important moment during the Civil War. I had read all these things in history books, which do very little to express the enormity of any event in the past. Watching the video, I got the feeling of what had happened on the hallowed ground in Gettysburg, and a lot of the words in the address of Lincoln, although here spoken by a robot, hit home. Such as who are we to have the power to make any ground hallowed when our words or efforts were not even present. I always respected that in such a huge event he kept it simple and to a few words. I felt that he didn’t disrespect the thousands of lives lost on that ground. The robot speaking, though, was very creepy in a sense that it pretty much went through the same route over and over again while giving the speech. Even though it is realistic, I would have preferred to hear the speech from a live look alike because I feel that those robots are more for the little side show on the rides in Disneyland and our own respectable President giving one of his more famous speeches should be given more thought than that.

Even at the end, when everyone got up and left right away, I can see how the past is lost on the people and that we will eventually make the same mistakes because we do not care enough about the past, only the present. People are so absorbed these days that we fail to remember where our own country came from and it is rather sad to see. Hopefully, something will change were the country’s awareness and national pride are raised to be more mindful of their roots and their past.