What was Lincoln saying in his second Inaugural address?

"With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan

Concentrate on these words:

“… finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan.”

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You should come up with three main things the nation needs to do.