The Gettysburg Address and The Declaration of Independence are not as different as people seem to believe. Both writers were engaged in a war; Lincoln felt he was fighting for the same freedom the Continental Congress wished to have from King George, freedom and equality. Lincoln wanted abolishment of slavery which he, like Jefferson hoped would lead to equality, this is evident when Jefferson said that “all men are created equal” (Declaration of Independence, 2011). The meaning of the sacrifice made at Gettysburg in 1863 is similar to that of the sacrifice of 1776. In both wars men fought and died. The men of 1776 and 1863 still harvested the same crops and lived in the same houses; they spoke the same language and prayed to the same God. This relationship between the two generations is strong; however, this is not what is the most important. It is not what ties the two separate generations. Abraham Lincoln believed that both generations had the same belief, the belief of
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