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A score is 20. 4 score is 80. 80 = 7 is 87. 87 years before his speech was when the US was founded. He says that we are now having a war to see if that country will live, and those men that died there did so in order that their country might live.

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Because he was hoping to convey Biblical gravitas.

Incidentally, he wrote that speech in a hurry, and was most dissatisfied with it.

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