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![]() ![]() We are met on a great battle-field of that war. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. ![]() "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. He was wrong, of course, but the message remains powerful: The real way to honor the dead is to fight for the cause for which they died. ![]() Lincoln offered just about 270 words, promising what was said would long be forgotten under the weight of those who fought the battle. What he settled on was a clear, short message-one that reminded people what all this terrible, bloody death was about, and what might come of it. Lincoln was invited to offer a few words after the bloody battle in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. On this day 155 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, a brief speech during the Civil War that would go down as perhaps the best bit of oration in American history. ![]()
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