(09-30-2024, 04:26 PM)Rob Wick Wrote: In actuality David I have a great respect for the truth, especially where Lincoln is concerned. That's why I have a hearty dislike for your child-like viewpoint about him. You prefer to make him a cardboard cutout of perfection while I prefer to see Lincoln as he really was, i.e., as a flawed human being capable of not only mistakes in judgement but omission as well. Feel free to continue to hold that view, but expect to be called on it as long as I am here.
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Rob
Some of us like to live in a world of reality.
(09-30-2024, 08:21 PM)Rob Wick Wrote: Much of my current viewpoint is informed by my study of Tarbell. . . . She definitely admired and respected Lincoln . . . .
So, Rob, what exactly did Ida Tarbell write about the execution of the "Dakota 38"? Please use her words only and absolutely none of your own words "interpreting" what she wrote.
Are you able to accomplish that task honestly?
"So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch
