LAD #15: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

The Gettysburg Address was a short speech delievered at Gettysburg by President Lincoln to commerorate and consecrated the bruial ground construction for the brave Union men who had died on that ground. He states that the nation once conceived in liberty is now stuck in a grave and divisive conflict. The battlefield they stand upon and the died whom have died upon it are being dedicated in the right and proper way he states. But what they had done and the blood they had spilled on those hills was the true consecration of the ground which surpassed our feeble ability to do so in remembrance. He states that what may be dedicated here today may be forgotten, but the men who have died must not be forgotten by history. This is because they are to be remembered by the living and used as the dedication for which they must undertake the remaining portion of the great task ahead. It is to make sure that the dead give to the people the same devotion to achieve that they "gave (as) the last full measure of devotion". It must be made so that they might not die in vain and that the democratic principles of government live on in the world.