Juneteenth tomorrow

I'm taking a day trip to Atlanta June 19th and return June 20th to also see the circus around the Presidential debate. Atlanta has a Civil Rights museum and they are planning a blow-out party: JUNETEENTH ATLANTA - Home

The end of slavery is celebrated June 19th when the last slaves were freed in Texas ending the root cause of the American Civil War. A war that started 164 years ago when Dixie decided they could not put up with the democratic election of Abraham Lincoln. But I will also see what museums might have records of Sherman's March to the Sea.

Grant and Sherman defeated Vicksburg, surrendered July 4th, which divided the Confederacy into two parts separated by the Mississippi River. Sherman went East via Chattanooga to Atlanta and then split the Eastern Confederacy again. He burned and gutted the war factories and railroads which starved Lee's Army of Virginia.

Today, we have people who seeks to destroy democracy, claiming 'we was robbed.' The same lie told in the 1860s. As Lincoln said:

. . . from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.​

I'm going to witness the indomitable spirit of Democracy against the Big Lie which sad to say, still lives in some..

Bob Wilson