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1 The Gettysburg Address
in Pictures Photo by Tim Evanson

2 FOUR SCORE and seven years ago... Photo by Chicago Man

3 our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that

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5 Now we are engaged in a great civil war,
Photo by SPakhrin

6 testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
Photo by SPakhrin

7 We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
Photo by Zboula

8 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

9 It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Photo by ronzzo1

10 But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate Photo by  ninniane

11 we cannot consecrate Photo by miss_leslie

12 we cannot hallow this ground.
Photo by bowenmurphy

13 The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.

14 The world will little note nor long remember what we say here,

15 (Really... I had no idea people would be reading this 150 years later!)
Photo by  Tim Evanson

16 but it can never forget what they did here. Photo by Ron Cogswell

17 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.

18 It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us
Photo by TJJohn12

19 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

20 that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
Photo by Chicago Man

21 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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