Read this excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and then answer the question that follows: (1) Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon 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 tong endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
(2) We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we
should do this. But
, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate ... we cannot consecrate ... we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, Ilving and dead, who struggled here have
consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world wil little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
What does President Lincoln clearly state by the line in bold?
We have come to move forward as a nation after an unjust war.
We have come to pay respect to the people who died in this battle.
We have decided to change the course of the war for the ture,
We have decided to forget this battle because it was too bloody,