"Gettysburg Part of America's Soul"

[ELCore]

I graduated from high school in 1975, and we had to memorize the Address. But I forget in what grade we did that; probably in junior high, though, grades 7 through 9.

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I think the era of having students memorize the Gettysburg Address and similar important American documents have passed. In talking to young people, none reported having to do so.

I can't help but suspect that our educational system has been turned so one of its purposes is to deprive students of their heritage rather than hand it on.