As a tangent, the frequent news regarding the sesquicentennial of Lincoln’s death and the end of the Civil War reminded me that the arrest, trial and execution of Mary Surratt, George Adzerodt, and the other conspirators took 7 weeks. It was by every account and fair and open trial.
Contrast that with the so-called “justice” being displayed in the Boston Marathon bombing to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He is, without a doubt, and by his own admission, guilty - yet we are now beyond 2 years, and the process will still grind on for many months more. How is that justice?
Several years ago we took our two public school age children to Washington so they can see it before it became the Kremlin on the Potomac. All they wanted to do was stay in the hotel and swim.
We saw several exhibits and being good parents wanting to teach our kids about our history, asked many questions of them. My wife asked my son, “do you know where Lincoln was shot?” Without batting an eye he said, “in the head.”
They spent the rest of the day in the pool, swimming.