TEXT C 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 battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of
the 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 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. Who has hallowed this ground
A.The brave people. B.The living and the dead. C.The people who are struggling or struggled here. D.The brave people except us all.