Update #1: 16 Aug 14 -- Added a personal reminiscence
Update #2: 16 Aug 14 -- Added links to actual 4-minute videos of the Civil War
A 16 August 2014 Reminiscence
On 12 Feb 2009, my wife and I embarked on a pilgrimage honoring our "American Saint," President Abraham Lincoln, at his beloved Springfield, Illinois home -- to pay due homage to his great life and at his sacred family-burial site -- all in commemoration of this magnificent human being's 200th birthday -- an anniversary of singular importance to virtually every human who is AWARE of his benevolent influence on this earth or who understand or sense how his passage through the human life-experience elevated humankind -- and it was a mission of ESSENTIAL importance to me.
I can remember the experience as if it were yesterday. IT WAS A LIFE-TIME MILESTONE! As expected, to our utter delight and eternal inspiration, we bathed in the thrill of being among so many other fellow humans who share our deepest feelings about this extraordinary man and what he did to make this world so very much better. HE WAS TRULY INDISPENSIBLE! We could see our own awe reflected in every misty eye.
He PROVED that the "ordinary" human being has it in him or her to become something really quite extraordinary.
His Very Life Defined, Tested, and Verified
the Meaning of "Self-Betterment" for
We Who Are So Privileged to Follow Behind Him
the Meaning of "Self-Betterment" for
We Who Are So Privileged to Follow Behind Him
(Don't you just LOVE this Internet?)
Truly, that crucial "surgery" on the nation, to remove its greatest shame AND SAVE ITS VERY LIFE, swept through much of the body of the "suffering national patient," as it existed -- before our stunned, modern eyes and electrified imaginations -- and SAVED US ALL (to the latest generations) AND REDEEMED ALL OF HUMANKIND. And the experience took contemplation of that cataclysm to another, even higher (and deeper) level.
STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER!
(Eternal thanks, too, to Mr. Sousa for enriching and glorifying our national chain-reaction
with this powerful, lasting, MAJESTIC musical sentiment)
(Eternal thanks, too, to Mr. Sousa for enriching and glorifying our national chain-reaction
with this powerful, lasting, MAJESTIC musical sentiment)
David Nelson
02/12/2013 11:25 AM EST
On this date 204 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin similar to this one. For over a century people from around the world have come to rural Central Kentucky to honor the humble beginnings of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. His early life on Kentucky’s frontier shaped his character and prepared him to lead the nation through Civil War. The country’s first memorial to Lincoln, built with donations from young and old, enshrines the symbolic birthplace cabin.
Photo: National Park Service
Yes, from humblest to most auspicious beginnings, much is possible -- for those who remain TRUE to their maturing selves! (D Nelson)
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