时间:2011.07.03--------2011.07.31
地点:美国McDonogh School http://www.mcdonogh.org/c/american-immersion/about-the-program
人物:D S Ja J K
事情的起因是源于D妈想让读高一的儿子在2011年的暑假能去美国参加夏令营,于是在WW上发了一个征求伙伴的帖子。第一个确定同行的是S妈,接着Ja的妈妈也联系了我。在我们三个都接到邀请函的时候,K妈和J妈都有了这个意向,于是就有了这一次因旺网而结缘的五兄妹一起赴美参加夏令营的活动。
The 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 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..