How are the ideals articulated in the Gettysburg address still relevant for our country today?
The government in which Lincoln discussed and how we need to honor our heroes and great veterans are two ways that the Gettysburg Address is still relevant today. Also how the reasons why we fight in battle, and wars are just to see who has the largest or more expensive nuclear weapons, but that we do it for good reasoning.
“The importance of the Gettysburg Address in the history of the United States is underscored by its enduring presence in American culture. In addition to its prominent place carved into a stone cella on the south wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the Gettysburg Address is frequently referred to in works of popular culture, with the implicit expectation that contemporary audiences will be familiar with Lincoln’s words. In the many generations that have passed since the Address, it has remained among the most famous speeches in American history.[82] Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is itself referenced in another of those famed orations, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.[83] Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963, King began with a reference to President Lincoln and his enduring words: “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a gr
