Eighty-seven years ago our great grand dads started the U.S.A., born in freedom and dedicated to the deal that everyone’s equal.
Now we’re stuck in a terrible war, testing whether we, or any land made like ours, can last. We meet on a big battlefield, a chunk of which we want to dedicate as graves for those who died so others don’t. It is totally fitting that we do this.
But, seriously, we can't dedicate, consecrate, or make this ground holy. The brave guys who fought here already did, and way beyond what we could do. No one will remember what we say here, but it sure won't forget what they did here! Either way, we have to finish the job the noble soldiers I mentioned earlier started. We are to be dedicated to the work left — that from these honored dead we really devote ourselves to what they died for and firmly resolve that they won't die for no reason - that the U.S.A., by God, shall again be born free - and that government of, by, and for the people, won't go extinct.
BILL
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