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| Tango01 | 15 Apr 2015 11:07 p.m. PST |
…recover from Lincoln's death? "How long does it take a nation to recover from the assassination of its president? 50 years? 100 years? 150? At the time of his assassination, President Abraham Lincoln was directly engaged in what could be considered the second-greatest political challenge of his presidency: the reunification of the United States in the immediate aftermath of a Civil War that had claimed more than 700,000 lives. No American family was left untouched by the carnage. The plans for Reconstruction were doomed from the start. Confederate sympathizers were defeated, angry and busy developing new systems of restriction and oppression for the recently manumitted Africans in America, even as they wrestled with the destruction of infrastructure across huge swaths of the South…"
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| jpattern2 | 16 Apr 2015 5:23 a.m. PST |
Good article, thought-provoking. Thanks for posting. |
| Great War Ace | 16 Apr 2015 6:56 a.m. PST |
Like any disease that is survived, it leaves some effects upon the body ever after. The body politic never "recovers" from such things as wars and assassination of its leading figures. The public memory is altered by them forever. Lincoln's work is still ongoing…. |
| Oddball | 16 Apr 2015 7:03 a.m. PST |
I'm pretty much over it and have moved on. Same for Kennedy's, I'm good. |
| Tango01 | 16 Apr 2015 11:38 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend. (smile) Amicalement
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 Murphy  | 17 Apr 2015 9:42 a.m. PST |
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| jpattern2 | 17 Apr 2015 10:36 a.m. PST |
It's already been two days. There shouldn't be anything to "wait for" at this point.
Like Will Smith said in Men in Black: "Don't start nothin', won't be nothin'."  |
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