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Do You Know Me? by Michael Ceraolo

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Do You Know Me? A century later that question was the tagline for a credit-card company's commercial touting the advantages of their card to stamp one with the mark of distinction I did not have such a card, but I was the unanimous choice of the seventeen Union state governors to speak that day at Gettysburg  Newspaper coverage of the ceremony talked more of my speech than the other one I spoke for two hours, as was the custom for political oratory at the time Yet I did less in speaking for two hours that he did in speaking for two minutes, and demonstrated at least one instance where two hundred seventy-two is greater than thirteen thousand You can judge history's verdict for yourself: my speech is widely available online Do you know me? My name is Edward Everett Bio:   "Michael Ceraolo is a retired firefighter/paramedic and active poet who has had one full-length book (Euclid Creek, from Deep Cleveland Press) and a ...