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One-Hundred & Fifty Years and a Day

April 17, 2011
Otis A. Glazebrook, IV
4/16/2011

Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, “official” beginning” of the U.S. Civil War

One hundred and fifty years ago, April 12th, 1861, the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, this event marked the “official” beginning” of the U.S. Civil War.

The War that began as an argument as to whether or not States had the right to withdraw from the Union and evolved into a fight over Abraham Lincoln’s emphasis on this Nation’s founding proposition that:

“All men are entitled to the fruits of their labor.”

One-hundred and fifty years and a day later, April 13th, 2011, the current president of the United States, who two years earlier, strode into the White House as Lincoln’s heir apparent – the fulfillment of Lincoln’s promise, officially declared that proposition is now dead.

All money is now the Government’s!

And now… the rest of the story. …..

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