The Gettysburg Text Message

(Validating Joe Biden's notions of history, this document was just found. It seems to have been sent via coal-powered Blackberry with genuine 19th century abbreviations: )

4 scor & 7 yrs ago our 4fthrs brot 4th, upn ths cntnt a new nashn, cnceevd in librty, & dd8td 2 da prop. dt "al mn r cre8d ="

Now we r ngged in a gr8t cvl u-r, tstng whthr dt nt1/any nt1 so cnceevd & so ddc8td, cn lng ndur. We r mt on a grt bttl fld of dt wr. We hv cm 2 a prt1 of it, s a fnl rstng playc 4 dos oo died hr, tht the nt1 mit lv. Ths we m a, in al prprty do. Bt, in a lrgr sns, we cn nt ddc8 -- we cn nt cnscr8 -- we cn nt ha-lo, ths grnd-- The brv mn, lvng & ded, oo strgld hr, hv halo/d it, fr abv r pr por 2 ad r dtrct. De wrld wll lttl nt, nr lng rmmbr wht we s a hr; whl it cn never forget wht th a dd hr.

It is rthr 4 us, th lvng, 2 stnd hr, we hr be ddc8d 2 th grt tsk rmng b4 us -- dat, frm ths hnrd ded we tk incrsd dvt1 2 dat cos 4 whch th a hr. gav de lst ful msur of dvot1 -- dat we hr hily rsolv ths ded shll nt hv did in va n; dat th nt1, shll hv a new brth of frdom, & dat gvrnmnt of d ppl/de ppl 4 de ppl, shl nt prsh frm de urth.

- Abram LinKln