LAD #15: The Gettysburg Address

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address held the importance of addressing two primary points; it served to both commemorate those who lost their lives to preserve the Union during the Civil War as well as to stress the importance of this action. However, Lincoln understands that merely words alone are not enough to truly acknowledge the value of the lives lost for the restoration of America. By laying their lives on the line for the North, the preservation of a divided nation was again discovered. Lincoln states that in order to truly commemorate the dead, the living must carry out the ultimate goal of these fallen soldiers. That goal is to protect a free governmental system created by, of, and for the people, one that will undoubtedly represent the same ideals and liberties generated by this nations founders "four score and seven years ago."