“It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”
Delivered November 19, 1863, on the battlefield where more than 7,000 men died in three days, Lincoln's address framed the war as unfinished work handed forward to the living. Every generation receives from those before it — and is called to advance what was not completed.
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