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The Battlefield at Gettysburg is primarily known for two things.

First, over three days, July 1st through July 3rd, 1863, the bloodiest battle of the Civil War took place here.

Second, it was the site of the Gettysburg Address, the famous speech that President

Abraham Lincoln delivered four and a half months after the battle on November 19th.

Six other Presidents though, Rutherford B Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D Roosevelt, and Dwight D Eisenhower, and one vice president who would later become president, Lindenby Johnson, have also delivered speeches at the battlefield.

FDR spoke there at least twice.

His first address was on Memorial Day, May 30th, 1934.

The second was an address for the dedication of the Eternal Light Peace Memorial on July 3rd, 1938, which also commemorated

the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.

One Union and one Confederate veteran unveiled the 47 and a half foot tall memorial.

In Roosevelt's nine minute speech he shared, quote,

all of them we honor, not asking under which flag they fought then,

thankful that they stand together under one flag now.

More than 250,000 people attended the 1938 dedication, including more than 1800 Civil War veterans, all of them at least in their 90s.

Fast forward to near the end of the Cold War, 50 years later, the 125th anniversary, which took

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