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But the soldiers who won at Gettysburg, the soldiers who fought to a finish the Civil War and thereby made their countrymen forever their debtors, have left us far more even than the memories of the war itself.
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Roosevelt acknowledges the profound legacy left by the soldiers of Gettysburg and the Civil War beyond just memories.
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