Reading the Gettysburg Address, I found it to be so interesting. I actually didn’t know anything at all about Gettysburg Address. After reading it, I found so many things amusing and I realized the meaning of the Gettysburg Address is that ideals are worth dying for and that it is up to the living to carry on the work of those who died to protect ideals. The ideals of equality and freedom are the bedrock of the United States as a nation. It also talks about how the Gettysburg Address gave meaning to the sacrifice of over fifty thousand men who laid down their lives in the Battle of Gettysburg. The Gettysburg Address declared that the United States had to stand as a country where all men are created equal and should be treated as equals.