America's Lucky Penny

I haven’t ever really thought much about Lincoln. I know that may sound terrible in some way, but he just was not ever really on my radar. In school we would just breeze by him when we spent our two days on the civil war. So when prompted to reflect on him I really have to make an effort to stop and think about the fellow.
When we were at the Lincoln Memorial in D.C. I got some mixed emotions. The amount of people at 9 oclock was pretty shocking. However, I got the feeling of faux pas interest. They are interested in the memorial, not so much the person. They wanted that facebook or myspace picture to prove they were there and that was about it. I would say may be 15% of the visitors actually read the inscriptions on the walls to the left and right of the huge statue.
America is proud of some of her history and those parts that make the cut are highlighted. Like Lincoln. However, Lincoln is great because of the things he did… most especially in relation to slavery. He went against a lot of people in his desire to abolish slavery, but I don’t know. Slavery was an American invented thing in the first place. It reflects way back to the Native American’s enslaving their captives from battle. We created our own monster honestly. It was only right that we would eventually have to slay it too. Lincoln happened to be the face of the time when that took place. I am sounding bitter now. I am sorry. I really think he was awesome but I cannot say that I have the same kind of interest in him as others.
I did get sad and disgusted though when so many of my fellow people did not stop for acknowledgement of the events that surrounded this man. They were phenomenal no doubt and changed America greatly.