Fallen Soldiers: Post-Visit Lesson

Library of Congress

After participating in the Fallen Soldiers Student Education Program at Gettysburg National Military Park, have your students compose a reflective essay answering the questions posed below.

What other challenges has our country faced in maintaining the ideals expressed in the Gettysburg Address and what can you do to help ensure that the "government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth"?