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This recording is by Mark Smith of Simpsonville,

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South Carolina.

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The address at the dedication of the National Cemetery At Gettysburg,

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11/19/1863,

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also known as the Gettysburg Address

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by Abraham Lincoln.

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Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation

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conceived in liberty

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and dedicated to the proposition

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that all men are created equal.

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Now we are engaged in a great civil war,

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testing whether that nation

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or any nation so conceived and so dedicated

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can long endure.

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We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

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We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here

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gave their lives that their nation might live.

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It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

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But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate,

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we cannot consecrate,

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we cannot hallow this ground.

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The brave men living and dead who struggle here

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have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.

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

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but it can never forget what they did here.

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It is for us, the living rather,

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to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

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It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us,

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that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion,

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that we here highly resolve

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that these dead shall not have died in vain,

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that this nation,

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under God,

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shall have a new birth of freedom,

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and that government of the people,

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by the people,

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and for the people

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shall not perish from the earth.

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End of the Gettysburg Address.