Abe Lincoln’s Reflecting Pool: A Republican Allegory

Sunlight splashed colors from the twin fountains of the Rainbow Pool. Lincoln recalled how the rainbows looked before the waterworks were split apart and surrounded by pillars with their glints of grey that glanced back at him from Kershaw granite, hewn and hauled in from the South Carolina underground. He kept his mind on the math. Add 400,000 American casualties of World War II to 600,000 casualties of the Civil War, and you get a cost of one million American souls. More The post Abe Lincoln’s Reflecting Pool: A Republican Allegory appeared first on CounterPunch.org .