Republicans had a different point of view back then.

But this seems like a good time to point out how short a time it has been since Lincoln walked the Earth. I was thinking about this just the other day. I read in a history magazine about the reunion of Confederate soldiers in Atlanta in 1932. That got me remembering that I remember hearing of the death of the last of the Civil War soldiers when I was a kid. Now, I am 51. some of you out there are older and may have clearer memories of the event but the old men who had survived that war bridged the years between something we think of as ancient history and our modern age. At least some of those men might have known men who fought in the Revolution. It has not been that long a time that this country has been a great nation.