James Getty, portraying United States President Abraham Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address during a commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address at the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg National Military Park on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. AFP PHOTO
James Getty, portraying United States President Abraham Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address during a commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address at the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg National Military Park on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. AFP PHOTO

GETTYSBURG: The Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln’s undying call for a “new birth of freedom” at the bloody turning point of the United States Civil War, turned 150 years old on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila), even as the union he fought to preserve quarrels bitterly over the role of government.

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