Booth's Escape Route

[BettyO]

I agree with you Linda, but I also have to disagree. I don’t think I am romanticizing Lew Powell when I say that he was a good boy – yes, by our standards he committed an atrocious crime. But in his own day and time and more or less in war time, he was a soldier simply following orders – no matter how horrendous. His orders were to assist in a plot to wipe out the Federal government. I don’t feel that it is romanticizing someone to attempt to look at them through their own eyes in an entirely different era, or compare 19th Century Victorian people to 21st Century people. We are only looking at motives here as to why. Powell was a soldier. He was following orders. What he was involved in was most certainly NOT commendable in any way; but to compare him to those who fly planes into buildings and kill literally thousands is perhaps a bit dramatic -

And that is the beauty of Roger's forum. We can agree to disagree.