Incident at an Antique Store

[RJNorton]

Toia, at least for now I am going to keep it open. IMO, the discussion, at this point, has not taken the degree of turn that has led me to close a few like threads in the past. Your one sentence is key to me - " I keep my own views, try to see the other side, and don't take any of it personally." The idea of the forum when founded over two years ago was to allow the expression of all ideas. Inherent in that goal is the possibility of strong disagreement on topics. I do not expect nor would I want all forum members to have my personal love/admiration for President Lincoln. When I titled the forum Lincoln Discussion Symposium it was purposely different from a now defunct forum titled "Friends of Lincoln Mailbag." I wanted people of all opinions to feel welcome here.