Assignment #10
 "But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not 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."
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863


This part of the Gettysburg Address pertains to the sacrifices being made in battle. Lincoln did not care if anyone remember what was said about the civil war and neither did he about the people who fought in it. He knew that their names would be lost in the pages of history just like what happens in every great war. What he wanted to be remember was their sacrificed, their unrelenting determination and their resolve. It was them, whon fought and died on the many battle fields who ensured that the United States remained a free country governed for the people, by the people and with the people's best interest at heart. He wanted their sacrifices to be etched into the pages of United States history for eternity since they were fighting to keep the land of the free, free forever.