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The Gettysburg Address
in Pictures Photo by Tim Evanson
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FOUR SCORE and seven years ago... Photo by Chicago Man
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our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war,
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testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
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We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
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We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. Photo by John_from_CT
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It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate Photo by ninniane
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we cannot consecrate Photo by miss_leslie
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we cannot hallow this ground.
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The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
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The world will little note nor long remember what we say here,
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(Really... I had no idea people would be reading this 150 years later!)
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but it can never forget what they did here. Photo by Ron Cogswell
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It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
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It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us
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That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion... Photo by brittreints
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that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
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That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. Photo by thelearnedfoot_
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