The Gettysburg Adress

[Tomsche]

I always have had an intrest in the ACW (American Civil War) even back when I was still wargaming, and for Independance Day I decided to build a small vignette.

Though the adress itself was given the 19th of November 1863, it was a direct follow up to the events of the Battle of Gettysburg, fought from the 1st to the 3rd of july that year.

Ever since the The Lego Movie contained an Abraham Lincoln minifig, I just knew I had to use him for this. I scored the web for some more western styled minifigures, as I already possessed some of the Union Cavalry men from the old Western range, and needed some `attendees` for the speech.

Like the real event, I decided to keep the setting simple. A grassy field, some spectators, a podium and Mr President himself.

The cool thing about the Minifig is that he is actually holding a printed tile, and the words `Four Score and Seven Years ago`, the intro of the famous 266 word speech, are clearly readible on it.

Of course, Lego being all about imagination and having fun tongue in cheeks, I couldn`t resist hiding some `celebrities` in the gathered crowd...

Edited July 4, 2014 by Tomsche

[grum64]

Very nice indeed and appropriate bearing in mind today's date.

It's also one of my favourite speeches. I read it again earlier whilst looking through your pics. Strangely evocative!

Off Topic I know (Sorry moderators) but have you seen the Ken Burns documentary, American Civil War DVDs. Stunning and thought provoking.

Gettysburg Address

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.

Edited July 5, 2014 by grum64

[fred67]

Very nice... sorry I'm replying to this (and the Constitutional Convention) quite late, I guess I haven't been on since before the fourth.

The Movie series of CMFs is the first one I didn't get a complete set of, I just wasn't that interested, but I had to get a couple of Lincolns. I know there are a few more, but I wish we got more historic figures, both U.S. and others.