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rainbows

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Registered: 04/25/08
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04/25/08 at 08:41 PM

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Had the most remarkable experience last week as our family visited the new Abraham Lincoln Museum and Library in Springfield IL. What a wonderful and moving experience…it was absolutely an inspiring and insightful day of learning and remembering. WOW! On one wall of the museum was a quote by another President - Roosevelt - who when commenting on the practice of preserving records and maintaining archives said something I thought worth very wise and very worth sharing.

To maintain archival facilities and records, he argued that a “Nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

I was thrilled to see my kids learn and to learn along with them - so many wonderful things about a President we know so very little about…but who we reverence nonetheless. Now I know more than I ever have before - and now I reverence him even more - not because of perfections, but because of his many imperfections and his ability to do so much in spite of them.

Kirk
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