So there I was earlier tonight, taking a break from some meetings and standing there in the Lincoln Memorial, reading the Gettysburg Address that's inscribed on the wall. I heard a teenager next to me ask a question about this sentence in the address:
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.
And the teenager said: "Is 'knob-lee' a real word? What's a 'knob-lee'?"
Sigh. The yoots these days.
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