Do you think we should still show him honor?

Do you think we should still show him honor?
February 12th is the bicentennial (200yrs.) of Abraham Lincoln‘s birthday. Don’t you think it is important that we still teach his values, his personal story, and his importance in history to our youth?

Answer by skullgirl15
no

Answer by PrettyInPink23
of course

Answer by Eliezer G
yes

Answer by DEF LEPPARDS GIRL™
yes

Lincoln’s Youth: Indiana Years, Seven to Twenty-One, 1816-1830

First published in 1959 to mark the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, Louis A. Warren’s classic study of Lincoln’s formative years in Indiana tracks his growth from awkward boy to serious young man poised on the brink of a brilliant career. Here are fascinating glimpses of Lincoln’s family life, the people he knew, the places he visited, his physical development, and the tragedies he suffered. Perhaps most revealing is Warren’s treatmnet of Lincoln’s education, both in the schools he briefly attended and in the books he read, and the influence of Thomas Lincoln in forming the character of his son.

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What are your thoughts about this?
“One of the most poignant memories I have of my father was a trip that we took to Europe when I was about thirteen
years old, and we went to Czechoslovokia and Poland and Italy and
Greece and France and Germany. And everywhere we went, we were met by
vast crowds of people, hundreds of thousands of people, who came out
because they wanted to be near an American politician. And it wasn’t
just because my father’s brother had been martyred three years
before. The same thing happened to Eisenhower when he went to Kabul
and Tehran. A million Muslim people met him on the street waving tiny
little American flags. And what I remember as a boy is these crowds
of people that were just hungry for American leadership, and they—not
bullying. They knew the difference. And they were starved for a moral
authority. And they proudly named their streets after our presidents,
Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln and Roosevelt and Kennedy.

And I remember the day after 9/11, when the headline on the biggest
newspaper in France, Le Monde, was “We’re All Americans Now.” And for
three weeks after 9/11, thousands of Muslim people came out
spontaneously onto the streets of Tehran to make candlelight vigils
to show their support, their solidarity, their love for the United
States of America. We were the most beloved nation on the face of the
earth and in the history of mankind.

And it took 230 years of disciplined visionary leadership by
Republican and Democratic presidents to build up those vast
reservoirs of public love for our country. And in seven short years,
through monumental arrogance and incompetence, this White House has
drained those reservoirs dry. We are now, according to virtually
every poll, the most hated nation and feared nation on earth. And
anybody who says that it’s good for our national security when
European youth, as a recent poll showed, hold Osama bin Laden in the
same regard as they hold President Bush, and anybody who believes
it’s good for our national security when Hezbollah is as popular in
the Mideast as America has their head in an oil well.

You know, Abraham Lincoln said America—we’re doing things today that
were inconceivable a few years ago. We’re torturing people in
America. We’re eavesdropping on our citizens. We are having
extraordinary renditions. We’ve suspend habeas corpus. We have these
black prisons. And, you know, Abraham Lincoln said that America is a
good nation—is a great nation, because we’re a good nation. And he
warned that if we ever lose our goodness, we’ll quickly forfeit our
greatness as well.

You know, people say in the White House that we have to do these
things, because we’re under such terrible threat. But that’s a lie.
When I was a little boy, we had 25,000 nuclear-tipped missiles
pointing at our country from the Soviet Union with one guy able to
press a button and vaporize most of our population. And we weren’t
torturing people and eavesdropping on our citizens and suspending
habeas corpus. During the Civil War, 659,000 Americans died. Our
cities were burned and occupied by foreign—by hostile armies. And we
didn’t engage in those kind of behaviors.

You know, during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was
approached by his generals with the idea of torturing British
soldiers to extract strategic information. At that time, the British
were torturing our soldiers in New York Harbor on coffin ships and
killing them by the dozens every day. Washington said to them, “I
would rather lose the war, because this is the first nation in
history that is based upon an idea, and the idea is one of essential
human dignity and justice.” And he said, “We’re not—I’d rather the
British continue to rule us than become—than to lose that.” And, you
know, he established codes of conduct for the treatment of prisoners,
fair treatment of prisoners and humane treatment. And the Hessians
that he captured on Christmas Eve were so shocked by the good
treatment they received from the American captors that after two
weeks in prison, they agreed to walk unguarded all the way to POW
camps in western Pennsylvania, and not a single one escaped.

During the Civil War, Lincoln’s general suggested—made the suggestion
of torture, and he was so horrified by the idea, that he created a
committee to establish a standards—a report with standards for the
fair treatment and humane treatment of prisoners of war. And eighty
years later, that document became the Geneva Convention.

During World War II, Eisenhower was asked about torturing Germans at
a time when Nazis were torturing our prisoners and POWs. And
Eisenhower said, “Americans don’t do that.” And he said—and during
World War II, German soldiers surrendered to American soldiers by the
thousands, because they had heard from their fathers, who fought in
World War I, “Always surrender to an American, because Americans
don’t torture people.”

You know, a few week
To “majestic” – I am a big Kurt Vonnegut fan. I love everything he ever wrote. I was very disturbed reading about the historic and idyllic town of Dresden being firebombed. I am no fan of war.

I think you got up on your high horse so fast that you didn’t actually read the entire post. It was a quote from Robert Kennedy, Jr. He is making the point of how things are different under BUSH than they were BEFORE BUSH.

I am no fan of war.

But WAR is WAR, and torturing people who haven’t even been charged with anything are two horses of different colors.

I’m truly sorry you missed the whole point.

Answer by emal2me
Could you please give us the abridged version of your question?

Answer by majesticproductions
During World War II, Roosevelt was presented with a problem. Bombings of Japan were proving ineffective due to the scattered nature of the Japanese industrial centers. His generals came to him and suggested that they take up “carpet” bombing. Meaning that they would not target the military targets only, but bomb the city as a whole. Roosevelt was apalled by this, stating that “Americans do not do that.”

March 19, 1945. 300 American B-29 bombers began a raid on Tokyo, which when completed, resulted in over TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND civilian casualties. When asked about the raid, Truman that he “Wished it could have been higher. Maybe then the “nips” would surrender.”

Americans don’t torture? What do you call being burned, boiled, and roasted alive?

My thoughts about your question aren’t that much. You look to history and see the bright, good side the US has always seemed to be. Thing is, look up the story of the Tokyo Fire Bombing. You’ll find that not everything is as peachy and kind as you’d like to think.

Answer by pink_angel
WOW.

Thanks for posting that, you’re amazing.

Answer by Gorgeoustx VOTE THE FUNDIES OUT
Yes, many prisoners have been denied their basic human rights by the government of the USA.

1. Name three major rivers in North Dakota.?
2. What type of agriculture is prevalent in North Dakota?

3. Name the area that occupies the eastern tier of countries & is probably the most fertile area in North Dakota.

4. What is the name of one sports team in the state of North Dakota?

5. What city is home to the bank of North Dakota?

6. Who was the general who was commander of Fort Abraham Lincoln.

7. What is North Dakota’s capital’s latitude & longitude?

8. What was the plan that was authorized by Congress in 1944 to control & develop the water resouces of the Missouri River Basin?

9. How many sections of land are in a township?

10. What is the largest potential oil fiel in the United States.

11. What organization was created to relieve unemployment among the youth & then preserve naturl resources in North Dakota?

Answer by integragirl5742
1.)knife river, little missouri river, and missouri river
4.)North Dakota fighting sioux
7.)46.81N -100.8W

Answer by b j
1) Missouri River, Red River of the North, Souris River

2) Dakota’s two most important commodities are wheat and cattle… http://www.umanitoba.ca/afs/agric_economics/ardi/agricandndecon.html

3) Red River Valley

4) North Dakota Fighting Sioux and the State Bisons

5) Bismarck

6) George Armstrong Custer

7) 46°48′48″N, 100°46′44″W
In 1944 Congress authorized a Missouri River basin project to control flooding of the Missouri, improve navigation, develop hydroelectric power, irrigate more than 4.3 million acres in the basin, halt stream pollution, and provide recreation areas. By the 1970s there were seven dams on the Missouri and eighty on its tributaries.

http://www.answers.com/topic/missouri-river

9) I’m not sure of this one. 36 sections and each section is 1² mile.

10) I believe it is coastal Alaska

11) Would that be Job Services North Dakota – have offices all over the State

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