The Ideals of the Gettysburg Address
On November 19th in 1863 the famous speech had been spoken by Abraham Lincoln. That’s when he first had spoken the then famous and still famous words “four score and seven year ago” and “of the people, by the people, for the people”. By saying those words, Abraham Lincoln changed the nation.
One of the messages in the Gettysburg Address are saying-not to give up on the war; to keep on going; to win that one war, and all of the wars to come. Lincoln wanted his nation, this nation to win that one war; he wanted to win because for one he really wanted the freedom, the power, and those ones that fought alive or dead got their remembrance. The reason that Lincoln said that is because he wanted his nation to succeed, pretty much he wanted the nation to just win the war and get it over with, he also wanted to take devotion to dedicate, the living and dead, there lives, that they didn’t die in vain.
“ We can not dedicate- we can not consecrate- we can not hallow” says Lincoln. Which he is meaning that any one can NOT make that ground more holy than it is. The reason for that being is because that ground is special enough, you can not make it any more special than it already is or was. That the soldiers have risked each others lives to save their nation, for the sake of freedom, for the sake of their families, and for the sake of everybody else in that/this nation.
The Ideals articulated in Lincolns speech are still relevant to our country because soldiers are still fighting for our country today, and also are still fighting for other people’s countries. For one example, the Iran, Iraq, Baghdad, and Afghanistan war, all in one. The U.S. soldiers are fighting for all. The soldiers now in those countries, are fighting for this nation right here, and the other countries freedoms. Sure the people in the other countries feel, felt like the people in 1800’s, they do not have a choice. They either fought for their freedom, or just be there waiting for the wars to be over. Which meant that the freedom would feel like it would never come. It could be any one of the lucky people in this nation sitting there thinking about when the chance of freedom will be. But the lucky people can not think that because those people are free.
Imagine a mother of a soldier in the war. “When can the soldier, that I love, come home? Sitting here wondering, when he is going to come home? Is he really okay, or is he lying to me in his letters? When will the war really be over? Are they going to win the war? Where are they know? Does he ever read my letters?” Questions would probably be going through that head of a mother.
The one conclusion is that Lincoln was trying to reach to his nation by his three minute speech with two hundred and seventy words. By saying that he actually wanted the freedom, he wanted his nation to stop the war; he wanted the war over with. Also asked of his audience but not literally came out and said it; but he asked the audience to finish of the war, so they could be a union again. That is actually what the point, that Lincoln wanted the war over, and he wanted his nation to be free. The nation, Lincoln’s nation was his pride. He did not want to express by dedicating a grave on the ground of battle. The reason because is that he thought that the ground could not be any more special.
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