26 FERNANDO CALVO GONZÁLEZ-REGUERAL THE GETTYSBURG ADRESS 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 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. 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. Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863. DISCURSO DE GETTYSBURG Hace ocho décadas y siete años, nuestros padres hicieron nacer en este continente una nueva nación; concebida en libertad y consagrada al principio de que todos los hombres son creados iguales. Ahora estamos empeñados en una gran guerra civil que pone a prueba si esa nación, o cualquier nación así concebida y así consagrada, puede perdurar en el tiempo. Estamos reunidos en un gran campo de batalla de esa guerra. Hemos venido a dedicar una porción de ese campo como lugar de descanso final de los que aquí dieron sus vidas para que esa nación pudiera vivir. Es absolutamente correcto y apropiado que hagamos tal cosa. Pero en un sentido más amplio, no podemos dedicar, no podemos consagrar, no podemos santificar este suelo. Los hombres valientes, vivos y Revista de Historia Militar, 126 (2019), pp. 26-44. ISSN: 0482-5748
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