In today’s second “On the Square” article, George Weigel explains What Gettysburg Means . If, he writes,
Gettysburg was the pivot of the Civil War, and if the Civil War changed the country from “the United States are . . . ” to “the United States is . . . ” (as America’s Homer, Shelby Foote, often pointed out), then the United States as we know it was forged on July 1-3, 1863, outside a small crossroads town in Pennsylvania.
He goes on to explain what that means, and tells a moving story.
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