the real declaration/Gett. address

I really enjoyed hearing Johnny Cash's version of the Gettysburg Address because although I realize it's importance and everything, I am not very interested in it. Obviously it was something we needed but to me reading it is very boring and to hear a singer that I like do an interpretation of it made it a lot more entertaining and bearable. It was interesting to find out that there were other versions and lots of edits of the Gettysburg Address but in the end does it really matter? Would the results be completely different and a whole new message conveyed? I don't really think so.

I didn't enjoy the reading very much because as I have mentioned before history is not something that particularly peaks my interest. There's some things that I think are interesting to hear about how it came to be and what it all means but for things like documentation I just appreciate it's meaning and recognize that it's out there but it's there it happened I don't really need to know how. I did learn some interesting facts about The Declaration that I never had realized before though. I thought it was a bit ridiculous that Congress deleted close to a third of the texts and made so many changes, something like that could change a document completely and it kind of makes you wonder about the original text. It doesn't really surprise me that Congress made all those changes though. I can definitely understand the annoyance Jefferson had because it probably made him feel like he wasted a lot of time. I also didn't realize that the traditional calligraphy copy that we all picture when we think of The Declaration of Independence was not made till later. Also, I wasn't aware of all the different grammar rules that were in affect back then I never really thought about how grammatical errors were decided and that at one point they were different.