Senate Bill 0241 Indiana Abraham Lincoln bicentennial commission. Establishes the Indiana Abraham Lincoln bicentennial commission. Passed 50 – 0.
My fiscally conservative side says this is the kind of waste that governments don’t need to tax us for. But, in the face of honoring Honest Abe, that side doesn’t last very long. I mean basically, he was the country’s Christ figure. He was an obscure political figure who came out of the American wilderness, displaying the characteristics of the quintessential American. He was hard-working, self-educated and quick with homespun humor. He was hard willed when he needed to be but compassionate whenever he could be. He led us through our greatest struggle, and he died for it. If you want to stretch it a bit, America was reborn out of his death. I’m sure there were less attractive aspects of the man. But I don’t want to know about them. I get goosebumps every time I get to go to his memorial. I need a few heroes, and he’s one of them.
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