![]() ![]() ![]() "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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