Members are certainly welcome and encouraged to discuss the assassination here, but there is a forum devoted more exclusively to this topic at http://boothiebarn.wordpress.com/. A Little Touch of History at http://awesometalks.wordpress.com/ also has a lot of Lincoln assassination related material and discussion.

Happy Fourth of July -
Lest' we Forget --

Remember that although the Fourth of July is celebrated as our Country's Birthday -
it once took "two nations" to make us ONE Nation - Undivided!


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Happy Fourth, everyone!

Thanks Roger for the links the assassination forums-worth a peek!

Don't the Confederates celebrate their own version of "Independence Day" Betty? What is the date?

(07-18-2012, 09:17 AM)Lindsey Wrote: Don't the Confederates celebrate their own version of "Independence Day" Betty? What is the date?

They celebrated Confederate Memorial Day -- the VERY same date as the original Memorial Day..... April used to be Confederate History Month. It is still considered such, but not publicized....so much for being PC

Speaking of politically correct, don't state employees in VA still get the day off for Robert E Lee's birthday?l

(07-18-2012, 09:52 AM)Gene C Wrote: Speaking of politically correct, don't state employees in VA still get the day off for Robert E Lee's birthday?l

No - not at all...

It is now MLK Day like every where else

At least you're not Chris Rock who tweeted (I will NEVER start Twitter--my life isn't interesting enough!) that Independence Day meant nothing to the blacks but sure the whites had a grand ole time. Geez....

Didn't mean to start anything. When I moved to Richmond from New Hampshire (24 years ago) there were some old timers in the office that would always celebrate the holiday in January as Robert E Lee day. (We only stayed in Richmond 3 years but I liked it)

(07-18-2012, 01:41 PM)Gene C Wrote: Didn't mean to start anything. When I moved to Richmond from New Hampshire (24 years ago) there were some old timers in the office that would always celebrate the holiday in January as Robert E Lee day. (We only stayed in Richmond 3 years but I liked it)

So you lived in Richmond, Gene? It is vastly different now. I don't even like it anymore and I was born and raised here! HA! History is pretty much too "swept under the rug" for my tastes - it's now all about jazz festivals, plays, food festivals, etc. Trying too hard to expound on what it doesn't have while attempting to ignore what it DOES have. I live out in the country and stay away for the most part!

While I don't appreciate the comment by Chris Rock (I didn't know he had said that), it does remind me of the comments made by Frederick Douglass about the day in a speech. See, for instance: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927.html

Yet, one would think that Mr. Rock, like all Americans, perhaps, would be thankful for the freedom enjoyed and made ultimately possible for all of those living here today...