BAKER VIDEO PRODUCTION
writer ABRAHAM LINCOLN production THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS date 2-11-2014
Scene # Int/Ext, Day, Night Visual Audio
101 Int Day

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STUDENT

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.

110 Int Day

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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 battle-field of that war.

120 Int Day

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STUDENT

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.

130 Int Day

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STUDENT

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.

140 Int Day

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STUDENT

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

150 Int Day

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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.

160 Int Day

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It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us --

170 Int Day

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that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion

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-- 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 --

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and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863