Reply #14: What you've written, seventhson...

[DeepModem Mom]

reminds me of something I posted last night (to little response, but it had meaning for me). Disgusted by Cheney's crude remark to Senator Leahy, I chanced on a passage that I thought was a reminder of what can be said to a divided nation, of what we can be, and I hope might be again --

Lincoln's Second Inaugural:

"....I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."