Composing America-Gettysburg Address

After reading about the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address I was amazed at one particular thing. It never crossed my mind that these documents had to be revised just like any other document. I always thought that a bunch of men sat in a room and just wrote what came to their mind and that was how these documents were made. I was totally wrong for thinking that. Revision has been around for much longer than I ever thought. Just to think that if someone didn’t revise the Declaration of Independence then how my life would be different today. I am sure that it would not be like it is now. After looking at the different ways that the Gettysburg Address can be presented it made me think of it in a totally different way. I am a very musical person and I was very interested in the way Johnny Cash presented it. I thought it was very neat that you can take a historical document and turn it into something modern that will catch the attention of people. I would much rather see it in a musical way than in a written out form. If it is presented in a musical form I think that it sticks in my mind a little better.