Why does Lincoln still matter?

[Hess1865]

Oh, and by the way, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABRAHAM LINCOLN!

When she was little, my daughter, Beth, thought it was pretty special that she always got her birthday - February 12th - off school. She was the only one in the family lucky enough to have a birth day for their birthday though. Martin Luther King was killed on my birthday - April 4th. My son, Jamie, was born on November 22nd - the day John F Kennedy was shot. And his sons, my Ayden and Bryant, were born on April 15th - the day Abraham Lincoln died.

"Anybody here ... " remember that old song, "Abraham Martin and John?

I was born on the same day as Yoko Ono......