From Obama’s Speech:
So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America’s birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people:
“Let it be told to the future world…that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive…that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.”
America. In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words.
Aside: Obama’s speech writer is a young man by the name of Jon Favreau. Not the actor/director, but a cool coincidence nonetheless.
Post a Comment