Happy Birthday, Abe!

Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by HatterDon, Feb 13, 2008.

  1. HatterDon

    HatterDon Moderator

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    Here in the Central Time Zone, there's still one hour left in Lincoln's birthday. Revisionism will be revisionism as long as there's PhDs to earn and books to sell, but for me, Lincoln was not only our greatest president, but was the greatest American of the 19th century.

    So as we ponder the divisions in our society, the name calling, the polarizing, the eternal them-v.-us, let's have a look at the words the President of the United States had for people who had been killing his soldiers for four years:

    "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, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

    Do you suppose that there's a little of that left 144 years later?

    Happy Birthday, Abe, and thanks for everything.
     
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  2. pettyfog

    pettyfog Well-Known Member

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    Hear, Hear!
     
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  3. Clevelandmo

    Clevelandmo Active Member

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    Very nice post, I think that there is still some of that left.
     
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  4. jmh

    jmh New Member

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    Happy birthday, Honest Abe!
     
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  5. dave2d2

    dave2d2 New Member

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    Great man, great president. Right up there at the top. FDR is still my number one though. Happy birthday honest Abe.
     
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