April 24, 2013
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On March 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address.
He ended his brief remarks, saying: “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 bourne the battle and for his wife and for his orphan, to all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and all other nations.”
Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Lincoln was shot on the night April 14, 1865. He died the following morning. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to William Tecumseh Sherman on April 16, 1965, and the (un) Civil War was over.
How could we have know the intention of Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev should they have walked along beside us on Boston city street the afternoon of April 15, 2013?
How could anyone have anticipated that a group of plotters were devising plans to assassinate the President, the Secretary of State and other members of the President’s cabinet? In the photograph - the only known photograph of Lincoln’s second inaugural address, John Wilkes Booth is standing amid other people within circle A. President Lincoln is signified by circle B.
In circle C we find David Herold, George Atzerodt, Lewis Powell, Edmund Spangler and John Surratt.
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People wonder what the Tsanraev boys were thinking, what kind of statement they intended to make?
SEdgwick County, Kansas had a 6.9% voter turn out three weeks ago. I wonder what kind of statement that?
People wants to know what some Muslim magazine explains how to make bombs.W have magazine that tell us how. There are books in libraries that tll us how. Site on line that tell us how. And obviouslt there was at least one fireworks stand where anyone could get some ofd the bomb ingredients.We are selling guns in higher than ever numbers. Polie and Sherrif departments worry if they can get sufficient ammunition. More people died violntly in Wichita, Kansas, thus far in April, than the three people who were victims of a pressure cooker bomb.
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I was reading in the local paper (read that one at diner, LA Times at lunch)...we have had 11 random killings in the town I work in the past month and 1/2. In LA all the towns run into eachother and it is hard to tell where one starts and the other one stops. They has a map and a decription of each along with the age and name of the dead.
These are all unrelated the police say.
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