November 16th – 22nd American icon
With the second pick in the 2008 american icon draft, the wai chooses….. Abraham Lincoln.
For the second week in a row the choice for the weekly American icon was and easy one. On November 19th, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln made one of the most famous speeches in American history; The Gettysburg Address. In just over two minutes, this speech summed up the entire purpose of the civil war. President Lincoln described the north’s victory as a “new birth of freedom” that would help to bring equal rights to all Americans. I decided to choose Lincoln as the weekly American icon because this speech has played a very important role in the fight for equality in America. As this struggle seems to be getting less and less because of recent events such as the election of President Obama, I am proud to give the trophy to my man Abraham.
