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19/11/2008
NOVEMBER 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address
where 50,000 soldiers were killed or wounded in a 3 day battle:
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,
or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."
Lincoln went on:
"We are met on a great battlefield...to dedicate a portion of that
field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives
that that nation might live...But...we cannot dedicate...this ground.
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated
it."
Lincoln continued:
"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...That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to
that cause for which they gave the last full measure."
Lincoln ended:
"That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in
vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of
freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from the earth."
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I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them...I will plant them in their land, and no longer shall they be pulled up from the land I have given them, says the LORD your God.
Amos 9:14,15
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