[Ciaphas Cain]

It amazes me to no end that there were so many people alive in the early part of the twentieth century, who knew firsthand those who had been intimate with the leading figures of the founding of America.

There was a gentleman named Samuel Seymour who passed away in 1956. He was 96. A few months before he died he appeared on the TV show I've Got A Secret. What was Mr. Seymour's claim to fame? He was the last living witness of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

A boy who saw Booth shoot Lincoln lived long enough to talk about it on national television.

When you think about it, time truly is like the blink of an eye. And two thousand years since the time of Christ is hardly anything.

[RegulatorCountry]

My own grandfather was born shortly after the Civil War. His father, my great grandfather, ran away and enlisted to find his older brother, they hadn’t heard from him in months. Never found him, he was gut shot, died of peritonitis as a prisoner of war at Point Lookout, Md.