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Lincoln Re-Examined

KSAT Wrote: Nov 30, 2012 7:20 PM

We remain the only nation in the West to engage in a so-called Civil War in order to do away with slavery. All other western countries that had slavery did away with it peacefully. American children are brainwashed into thinking that the War for Southern Independence was all about slavery when that was only a minor issue. Most who fought for the South were poor and had no slaves. Lincon was determined to preserve the Union, with the North dominating, no matter the cost, and the cost he extracted was extraordinary (600,000 plus dead)!

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Lincoln Re-Examined

Every schoolchild with enough smarts and curiosity to get beyond the latest video game of "Call of Duty" ought to go see "Lincoln," the movie, and check out the references and his own attention span. It requires patience, but it shows through dramatic action how a self-taught rustic from the deep backwoods had the emotional and intellectual discipline to overcome poverty and grow up to be a president to rank among the greatest.

This is not about the American Dream or a Horatio Alger story. (Does anybody remember him?) Nor is it mythmaking. It's made of sterner stuff than that....

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