Lest We Forget
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
It will echo as long as English is spoken.
Edward Everett knew right away:
“I should be glad, if I could flatter me that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.”
And Everett’s address has some beautiful moments as well. A two hour oration is an epic.
A two hour oration is an epic.
A masterpiece, sadly side by side with a much shorter, and greater, masterpiece that could be recited by schoolkids.