Four score and thirty-five centuries ago our forefathers sired onto this 
continent, a new people, conceived in love and inherently dedicated to the 
proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great struggle, testing whether our new Republic of 
Armenia so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.  We are met on a great 
battlefield for survival.  We have come to dedicate a portion of this struggle 
as a living monument to those many millions who came before us and who gave 
their lives that this beloved nation might live.  It is altogether fitting and 
proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecreate, we can not 
hallow this new nation.  Our brave people, both living and dead, have consecrated 
this new Armenia, far above our power to add or detract.  The world will little 
note nor long remember what we say today, but it will never forget how our people 
have suffered and what they have accomplished.  It is for us the living, rather 
to be dedicated to the unfinished work for which they have sacrificed so much for 
and so nobly advanced.   It is for us the living, rather to the great task 
remaining before us - - that from our honored dead we take increased devotion - - 
that we highly resolve that these dead should have not died in vain - - that this 
new Republic of Armenia, a government of the people, by the people, and for the 
people, shall never - - never again perish from the earth.

Joseph Vosbikian
8/19/93