What does the gettysburg address mean?
Literally? 84 years ago ( a score is a set of 20) our ancestors created a new nation that believed in freedom and liberty for all. We are now fighting a great civil war (the war between the north and the south) . This war will test whether our nation (America) or any other nation that believes in freedom and liberty can last. Here we are at Gettysburg where there was a great battle of this civil war and we are setting aside a part of that battle ground as a final resting place (cemetary) for those who have died here fighting for our nation. It is the right thing to do. But really, we can not dedicate or make holly this ground. The brave men living and dead who, who struggled here (fought here and died here) have made it holly (or scared), far more than any power we here have to add or detract. The world will not remember what we (the speakers that day and the listeners) say here but the world will never forget what they (the men who fought and gave their lives) did here. It is for the
