(A) ensure that the soldiers did not die in vain by volunteering in the army.
(B) complete the great task of winning the war.
(C) dedicate themselves to remembering the brave men who sacrificed their lives by writing about it.
(D) ** honor those who sacrificed their lives by ensuring that the United States recommits itself to liberty.
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Concept note-1: -The stated purpose of Lincoln’s speech was to dedicate a plot of land that would become Soldier’s National Cemetery. However, Lincoln realized that he also had to inspire the people to continue the fight. Below is the text of the Gettysburg Address, interspersed with my thoughts on what made it so memorable.
Concept note-2: -1 Answer. Lincoln’s message in his Gettysburg Address was that the living can honor the wartime dead not with a speech, but rather by continuing to fight for the ideas they gave their lives for.
Concept note-3: -“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.
Concept note-4: -The Gettysburg Address: Hailed as one of the most important speeches in U.S. history, Lincoln delivered his brief, 272-word address at the dedication of the Gettysburg battlefield, the site of more than 50, 000 casualties.