The Gettysburg Address: The Importance Of The Civil War

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In the Gettysburg address Lincoln talks about the importance of the civil war. many people say (four score and seven years ago), but me personally I never got that’s so I’ll just say a very long time ago our founding fathers developed a nation based on liberty and the idea that everyone was created equal.
During the civil war the confederates fought the union and Lincoln said that this was very important and I agree. The Gettysburg address was a very famous war that was fought very courageously to help establish freedom in the nation that was originally founded on the idea freedom.
The men that died on the battle field, we must remember them and the sacrifice that they and their families made for our nation and not let them have died in vain

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