>>>"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."

I wonder what old Abe would say about our post on this subject :-) <<<

Jamie, that was just one year before Honest Abe unleashed that other war criminal Sherman to make total war on helpless women, children and old men. I like you and mean no disrespect though I have another view. I don't give a (expletive deleted by administration) about Lincoln's opinions or his (word deleted by administration) words.

And those are my final thoughts on the subject.