The Lincoln Highway (Rt. 30) was the first coast-to-coast paved road,
and the Lincoln Highway Heritage Foundation (of which we are a member)
offers a list of fun things to see along the way.
We enjoyed a hot dog at the rectangular snack shack which is next to the
round barn shown below.
Decorated gas pumps are scattered along the way.
Sad to say, the Coffee Pot coffee shop was closed.
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 Because 2011 marks 150 years since the start of the Civil War, we thought Gettysburg would be the perfect place to visit to learn more about that most significant time in our nation's history, and we were right about that. Now, flowers, grass and more than 1500 monuments stand where thousands fell. 
In the foreground you see blocks marking unknowns and there are thousands of them, bearing only an engraved number. There are several such fields of unknowns as well as conventional grave stones of the identified bodies as you see in the distance.   The 34 star flag evidenced denial of the facts that the slave holding states were seceding from the union as the quote from Sojourner Truth testifies...   Not even one slave was freed when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation but it was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part that led to that freedom. The Proclamation was signed more than two years before the war was over when it was signed nothing changed in the northern states. Jefferson Davis was so angered by the Proclamation that he re-enslaved any free blacks in the south, so the truth is more men were enslaved when the Proclamation was signed. The genius was that by signing the Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln made supporting the south impossible for Britain and France. Further, since the south counted slaves as property, the banks feared lending to the south in that as much as 60% of their "property" would be freed should the north win. Brilliant!   618,000 men died in the Civil War. 318,000 (including Sis. Carol's father) died in WWII, 115,000 in WWI, 56,000 in Vietnam.  If you go to Gettysburg, be certain to see the Cyclorama at the Gettysburg Foundation (of which we are a member) Museum. You have to see it to understand it's impact: it is a national treasure restored at a cost of $8 million.  |
While in
Gettysburg we visited the home/farm of Dwight Eisenhower.
It was WWII week on the Eisenhower farm when we were in Gettysburg.
Sis. Carol's father, Bromby Mills, died in England in WWII before he
ever saw his daughter. An attorney, he said "Wars are not won by
lawyers" and he enlisted, although he went through more than one doctor
before he was cleared to enlist. Men of such character are rare, more
now than then.
The new propeller
shown in the picture below has
not helped with gas expenses as much as I had hoped it would. For our
trip to Gettysburg PA we got 17.3 miles per gallon as we travelled a
total of 924 miles and were in the Jeep 20 minutes more than 20 hours.
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Sis. Carol wants to know, are we there yet |
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POST SCRIPT:
How very disgusting it should be to all
of us that the teaching of Racial
Prophecy that was used to justify
slavery is alive and well in the grace
movement thanks to the likes of Grace
School of the Bible and Richard Jordan.
Martin Luther King Jr. had this to say:
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."