Keith Ensminger: We are still dealing with ‘wounds’ Lincoln saw so clearly
Re “Our View: Effort to change public names is troubling” (Opinions, July 27): The assassination of Lincoln was probably the worst disaster of the Civil War because we lost sight of his parting plea, “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
We fought a horrible war to keep our nation whole and must remember the South and their patriots are part of our great nation. We are still binding our nation’s wounds and must remember our past.
Keith Ensminger, Merced
This story was originally published August 3, 2015 at 1:56 PM with the headline "Keith Ensminger: We are still dealing with ‘wounds’ Lincoln saw so clearly."