of the people, by the people, for the people…

Watching ‘Lincoln’ was a joy. Daniel Day Lewis and Steven Spielberg and their colleagues produced such succinct and inspiring art that moves hearts, nourishes minds and inspires souls.

My favorite part is at the beginning when the following excerpt of Lincoln’s Gettysburg address was depicted …

“– 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.” Excerpt: The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln on 19Nov1863

My tears well up and flowed gracefully filling the ground beneath my feet, my land, with hope for nations, all nations, to rise up and focus on doing their jobs to serve as they are all respectively…….” government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth “!