Charlottesville

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Jaimie Kinder - I don't know how I failed to see your excellent post this morning (maybe because I spent most of my day fielding comments - most of them angry - about the current situation). I just want to thank you for eloquently stating the case for many and to encourage you to continue teaching history. Having been there and done that, I know that it can be a very difficult profession; but we desperately need good teachers, especially in the field of history and the humanities, to instill core values in our future voters.

Just have to add that I generally do not have visitors come directly into my office at Surratt House, but I am having it now. I had an especially upset family from California today that cannot believe what is going on in America. They don't know their ancestry well enough to know if any ancestors fought in the War Between The States, so basically they have no irons in the fire. However, they are very concerned about the direction that this particular issue is pushing us into. These were clean-cut, intelligent people (not an angry mob type), and one of the best spokesmen in the family was a smart young man of about 19 or 20. That gave me hope that there are millions of others like him out there.