LAD #15: Gettysburg Address

This is a reflection of a Civil War Battle, the Battle of Gettysburg where many American lives were lost. It was a very smart speech consisting of a few sentences but had a profound affect on the people of America. Lincoln says, he calls the Civil War "a new birth of freedom" and also talks about human equality. He starts out talking about the American Revolution ("fourscore and seven years ago"). Even though the address was about the bloody battle, it had a bigger meaning; one about the entirety of the United States, including democracy: "government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."