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I really dont understand the following can any one help me !?
"Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on 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!. We are met on a great battlefield of that war!.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live!. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this!.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate!. !. !.we cannot consecrate!. !. !. we cannot hallow this ground!. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract!. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here!. 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!.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us!. !. !.that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion!. !. !. 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!. "
1!. How long is a score
2!. What date is lincoln referring to when he sayd four score and seven years ago
3!. What does consecrated mean!?
4!. what is the last measure of full devotion that the men gave!?
5!. According to Linclin what will have happend to those men if the union loses the Civil warWww@QuestionHome@Com
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1!. How long is a score 20 years
2!. What date is lincoln referring to when he sayd four score and seven years ago 1776
3!. What does consecrated mean!? The word "consecration" literally means "setting apart!." Persons, places, or things can be consecrated,
4!. what is the last measure of full devotion that the men gave!? Their lives
5!. According to Linclin what will have happend to those men if the union loses the Civil war!.!.!. Died in vain (for nothing)Www@QuestionHome@Com
A score is twenty!. So four score is eighty!. Four score and seven is 87!.
Lincoln delivered the speech in 1863, 87 years after 1776, the year the United States declared independence from England!.
Look up "consecrate" in a dictionary!.
He delivered the speech at a dedication ceremony for a battlefield graveyard!. He referred to "these honored dead!." What last full measure of devotion do you think the dead soldiers gave!?
The end of the speech says that Americans should "highly resolve" something!. What!? Www@QuestionHome@Com
1) Twenty Years
2) July 4, 1776
3) They were dedicated to their role in a "sacred" way!.
4) They gave their lives(full measure)!.
5) That Democracy, (Of, for and by the people) will not survive!.
Not one word of The Gettysburg Address is wasted!. Lincoln's poignant message that day, has been universally accepted as a tribute to fallen warriors and the terrible price of war!. A thousand years from now, it will still hold its meaning !.Www@QuestionHome@Com
A score is 20 years!.
Lincoln is reminding his audience that it has been 80(four score) and 7 years since 1776, when our country declared itself independent!.
Consecrated means blessed!.
The men who fought at Gettysburg, winners and losers, gave their full effort, devoted to their own idea of what their country was!. For the Confederates, they may have seen their country as Virginia, or Alabama, and the Federals may have seen it as New York or Maine!. Many of the men who served there, gave the last thing any man can give, his life!. If, as Jesus said, Greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for his friends, well how about the men who laid their lives down for people who hadn't even been born yet!?
If the Union lost the war, the Confederacy would have become a separate country!. We'd have lost the first two colonies that became states in our country (Florida and Virginia)!. The United States wouldn't really be the United States, it would be a pair of small petty republics that couldn't get along with each other, and probably not without each other!. Www@QuestionHome@Com