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| American Revolutionary War 1775-1783 |
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought fourth on this continent, a new nation,
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| War of 1812 |
conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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| Indian Wars 1775-1918 |
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| Mexican - American War 1846-1848 |
Now we are engaged in a civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
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| Civil War 1861-1865 |
We are met here on a great battle-field of the war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that the nation might live.
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| Spanish American War April 1898-December 1898 |
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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.
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| World War I |
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
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| World War II 1939-1945 |
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
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| Korean War 1950-1953 |
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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.
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| Vietnam War 1995-1975 |
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 the cause for which they gave their last full measure of devotion --
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| Afghanistan War 2001--- and Operation Iraqi freedom 2003-- |
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.
~ The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln
