The action of consecration – which means to make holy – isn’t done by the participants of the ceremony. It is done by those who gave the ultimate sacrifice at Gettysburg, and they had done it for us, the generations of Americans who stood there on Cemetery Hill, as well as those who were not yet born.

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“But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground.”

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Camp Currie (clark.wa.gov) This county-owned property includes just over 295 acres of forest and open areas on the east shore of Lacamas Lake. The Camp Currie youth camp is managed by a non-profit partner on 27 acres.

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