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CER Special Newswire
Amidst the battles still raging across the nation in the aftermath of the Elections, the historic words enunciated by President Lincoln in his second Inaugural Address in 1865 seem most apropos.
“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 a lasting peace among ourselves...”
I wonder how many of us have ever read them, have ever studied their cause and origins, other than (maybe) just knowing there was a Civil War.
It was a time of distrust, rancor, stereotyping and yes, even hatred — like today. So now the election appears to be over, but how might the distrust and vitriol that has so infected our civic life of late
recede? It turns out that history is our guide, our history, one that is rarely taught, dissected or relished. MORE…
In the midst of all the shouting about the election...let's not forget those who made it possible for us to do the shouting and do the voting — men and women in uniform.
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