Gettysburg Address What sentence BEST describes the purpose of including paragraph 2 in the speech?

A. to announce a change in war strategy

B. to honor the Union soldiers who had died

C. to pledge government aid for the cemetery

D. to celebrate the Union's victory in the battle

Paragraph 2:

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that
war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who
here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.