By ROBERT WOODSON/for The Herald — Our book club pick for this month is: LINCOLN and the Fight for Peace, by John Avlon.
“Human-nature will not change. In any future great national
Trail, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and
As strong as silly and as wise, as bad and good. Let us, therefore,
Study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from,
And none of them as wrongs to be revenged.
Abraham Lincoln
How little has changed from 1860’s America. We are still a nation divided on many levels, perhaps even more so than in Lincoln’s day. The issues that divide us today are for the most part different. Race being replaced to a large extent, by economics. On one end, the have too much and the other end the have to little.
“Lincoln understood that if you do not win the peace, you do not really win the war.”
Lincoln knew the North had to win the war by unconditional surrender but of equal importance was winning the peace.
We may still be trying to do that.
George Custer lives in Oakridge with his wife Sayre. George is a former smokejumper from his hometown of Cave Junction, a former captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. and ran a construction company in Southern California. George assumed the volunteer duties as the Editor of the Highway 58 Herald in 2022. He loves riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle, building all things wood, and playing drums on the weekends in his office.
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