By: Resa LaRu Kirkland

…he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time….. Daniel 11: 24

FORECAST–1 a: to calculate or predict (some future event or condition) …2: to serve as a forecast of : intransitive verb: to calculate the future

DEVICE—1: something devised or contrived: as a (1): plan, procedure, technique (2): a scheme to deceive : stratagem, trick b: something fanciful, elaborate, or intricate in design c:…f: a piece of equipment or a mechanism designed to serve a special purpose or perform a special function.

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The process that began in the 1960s to transform America’s elementary, middle and high schools into places where students could literally graduate without being able to read their diploma, where the teaching of mathematics was reduced to mush without rules, and where it was more important for students to feel really good about themselves than having to measure up scholastically with millions in foreign nations, has now reached the campuses of America’s colleges and universities.

In a nation where it now costs thousands of dollars to fire an incompetent teacher, we have the specter of university and college presidents eliminating one of the most respected tools for measuring a prospective student’s ability to qualify for admission. The venerable SAT, the gold standard for measuring readiness for college for nearly 80 years, is slowly being eviscerated by colleges and universities.

Wake Forest University, Bates, Bowdoin, and a few other small schools have recently decided to make the SAT optional for students applying for admission. Their argument for getting rid of these tests is that it will fling open the doors to “diversity” among the student body. Wake Forest President Nathan Hatch made the ludicrous claim that jettisoning the SAT would help the school, “move closer to the goals of greater educational quality and opportunity.”

Such decisions are less about a selection process intended to serve the best interests of both the student and the school than about marketing intended to put bottoms in classroom seats. It seems the biggest question in college admissions offices today is whether the parents of little Johnny or Jane can afford to pay tuition, even if it includes remedial courses. If the kid has a pulse, he’s in!

Disparaging the SATs for helping set high academic standards ignores the fact that more than two million students take the SAT every year and that more than 88% percent of America’s colleges require it for admission.

Those that don’t require the SAT for admission often use it for course placement and scholarship consideration. The overwhelming majority of colleges use the SAT because it has acquired a well-deserved reputation for its ability to aid the evaluation process.

It is essential to keep in mind that the SAT is a measuring device to help determine which students are best suited for a college-level education. It is rarely, if ever, the sole determining factor; good admissions officers also consider the student’s high school GPA, admissions essays, honors courses, and other factors. There are several SATs; the Reasoning Test and the Subject Tests, which measure a student’s knowledge in specific areas of study covering everything from physics to languages.

The requirement of SAT Subject Tests will be put to a vote of the University of California’s Board of Regents during its July 15 meeting in an effort to eliminate them as a means of determining whether a student is prepared for specific coursework at a higher level.

The stated reason for eliminating the subject tests strains credulity, i.e., that not enough students know they have to take them. So, rather than improving communications with UC applicants, the system’s Academic Senate is recommending the regents just do away with these tests altogether.

In reality, the vote has everything to do with Proposition 209, the California Civil Rights Initiative, which pushed for a color-blind admissions process instead of a spurious “diversity” selection system based on race and other non-academic factors. Voters in 51 of the state’s 58 counties supported the measure. Does the UC Academic Senate really think it “knows better” than the vast majority of California voters? I think not.

Those who want the UC system to drop subject tests are putting forth the politically correct and totally erroneous claim that the tests are unfair to minorities, but Van Tran, a California legislator of Vietnamese heritage and UC alumnus points out that by eliminating subject tests “the UC system is proposing a move that could diminish opportunities for tens of thousands of UC applicants from minority, immigrant and disadvantaged families.”

To the charge that students from minority families cannot afford to take the tests, there are procedures in place to ensure that those without the financial means to pay can take the tests for free. A good student is a good student no matter his family’s financial status or where they live. The SATs are a way of measuring that and opening doors that might otherwise be closed to good students who may need financial assistance and whose education would ultimately benefit the nation.

There are suggestions in some academic circles that dropping the SATs will somehow “strengthen” high school curricula and teaching. This too is an utterly bogus notion. The entire education system across the nation is broken.

The goal of public education has morphed from educating youngsters to simply moving students—good, bad and indifferent—through government schools like so much sausage by inflating grades, turning teachers into “facilitators”, expecting students to educate each other, and discouraging students who really want to learn by failing to exercise a measure of discipline in the classroom.

There isn’t an employer in the nation who will not tell you how increasingly difficult it is to find a new hire, straight out of college, who is prepared to take on real world responsibilities. By removing reliable and fair means of evaluating college applicants and dumbing down America’s colleges and universities, the only recourse left to many employers will be to hire foreign graduates.

The best way to prepare for college and the SAT is to work hard in high school and take a well rounded curriculum. Cheating qualified students who have taken the time and effort to prepare for this by devaluing and eliminating the SAT is just wrong. Giving their classroom seat to someone who qualifies primarily on the basis of race or other non-academic factor is just wrong.

Alan Caruba writes a weekly column posted on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center, www.anxietycenter.com. He blogs at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.

© Alan Caruba, July 2008

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It had to happen soon or latter. Eventually, intelligent Americans were bound to revolt against shelling out $5.00 for a cup of Java while also paying $5.00 for a gallon of regular petro.

Something had to go, and for many Americans it was the overpriced $5.00 Latte that proved most expendable.

As a result, Starbucks, purveyor of anti-God and other offensive left-wing propaganda on its coffee mugs, has announced that the firm will not close 100 stores as previously reported.

Rather, the Seattle, Washington based Starbucks will close 600 stores and wipe out 12,000 jobs.

According to the Associated Press, “Starbucks is closing 19 percent of all U.S. company-operated stores that opened in the last two years, chief financial officer Pete Bocian said. O’Neil said most employees would be moved to nearby stores, but she did not know exactly how many jobs would be lost. Starbucks estimated $8 million in severance costs. In total, the company forecast up to $348 million in charges related to the closures, $200 million to be booked in the fiscal third quarter ended June 30. Starbucks reports third-quarter results at the end of July.”

POSTCHRONICLE:

One remaining kerfuffel faces the bosses at Starbucks: What to do with all those hateful mugs?

johnlillpop@yahoo.com

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Americans, caught up in the daily struggles of their own lives would be astonished to discover the degree and amount of news coverage America receives in the press of other nations and they would be even more astonished to see the depth of interest in us from ordinary individuals in other countries.

People all over the world pay close attention to America and what we will and won¹t do. Our policies, actions and non-actions are reported upon and broadcast via satellite, internet, and print every day by international news companies and agencies all over the world.

This is appropriate to a nation whose prosperity and indebtedness is directly linked to the fate of other nations. When America does well in the marketplace, it ripples out. The old saying, “a rising tide lifts all boats” is true. It is very clear that what happens here affects the lives of others around the world. Almost all sell their products and agricultural surpluses to America, a nation where consumption is an obsession. We are, after all, the inventors of the supermarket, the shopping mall, and the charge account.

America holds title “leader of the free world.” This has been bestowed upon us. Delivered every day by the press of the world; a press that has often been educated and trained in the U.S. Children from all nations come here by the tens of thousands to be educated and trained. They return to their countries strongly aware of the freedoms, comforts, and security Americans enjoy.

It is no surprise that, over the last sixty years, the rest of the world has grown accustomed to America taking action as America sees required. The ability and willingness of Americans to do what other nations often shrink from is taken for granted around the world.

Our passion for democracy and our hatred of tyranny has distinguished America since before the founding fathers and through to today. In my lifetime we rebuilt Europe. We opposed the Soviet Union and saved Europe from their totalitarian system. We fought to keep South Korea free from communism. We re-built Japan and helped a once terrible enemy become a great ally.

We fought a war against communism in Vietnam, halting its spread in South East Asia. It can be argued we succeeded in spreading capitalism throughout that area of the world. Even China has opened it doors to capitalism and becomes more open every day. This is reflected in our current effort to transform Iraq and Afghanistan into nations where power shifts to “the consent of the governed” in a region where such ideas have never existed.

Americans want to be loved. They want America to be loved. We find nothing unusual in this because America has drawn our population from the people of the world, welcoming them to our shores, liberating them, treating them to the American dream, assimilating them into our culture, welcoming them as new citizens. In our minds we should be loved. But does our desire to be loved pose a danger?

In my book, “No: The Only Negotiating System You Need for Work and Home”, I address our individual and, by extension, our national desire to achieve our objectives. The present election cycle allows us to debate how best to achieve them and what efforts and policies are to be embraced or rejected.

”No,” I wrote, “requires a solid, ironclad mission and purpose.” When negotiating, however, it¹s not about you, but them—the other side. The “No” system empowers you to see the value of what you deliver and shields you from that terrible emotional fear of neediness.

America¹s neediness is often reflected in the view of those who need to be loved. They are willing to compromise America¹s long-term interests to get short-term love. History teaches, however, that American policy-makers have frequently positioned us in opposition to the views in much of the rest of the world.

All around the world our commitment to democracy, to capitalism, and our antipathy to the gangsters in so many other nations is closely watched. Our “mission and purpose” and the manner we go about achieving it is debated in their news media on a daily basis.

The results of a worldwide survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project were announced in June. Not surprisingly a lot of the world¹s ills were blamed on America as many believe “global warming” is real and others object to the conduct of our leadership’s decision to remove the dictator, Saddam Hussein, from power and what has followed from that decision. At the same time, there is widespread concern over our current economic troubles. Foreigners often say they like America, like Americans, but dislike our policies.

The ability of Americans to say “No” to bad economic, domestic, and foreign affairs policies will continue to be closely watched by millions in nations around the world. The willingness of Americans to make the tough decisions to drive America¹s mission and purpose forward in the future will be watched as well.

These are times when the fate of America and the lives of others around the world rest on our ability to say “no” even if it may cost us some momentary popularity or stiffen the resistance of those who openly seek to destroy us. Our ability to say “no” to bad economic policies, bad ideas, incorrect actions and all that threaten our well being will determine our future and the world¹s.

In 1776 we said “no” to tyranny and “yes” to liberty. We will celebrate that decision again on July Fourth.

Jim Camp is an internationally recognized expert on negotiation and a bestselling author of two books on the subject. He is the CEO of Camp Negotiation Systems, www.startwithno.com

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As the world mourns the death of the most notorious potty mouth of the past two centuries, it might be educational to hear the Eulogy of George Carlin in his own words.

I rather suppose such a eulogy would be rated PG and might read something like this:

Dear Ladies, Gentlemen, and Dirty “C#########”:

We are gathered here today to pay respects and say our final good byes to George Carlin, one funny “m###########.”

George taught us to laugh, he taught us to cry, and he taught us how to “p###” into the wind without giving a “s###” about who might get wet.

George taught our sons that there is more to life than a “c###” with big “t###.”

Now it is time to return George to the Lord for final disposition.

Take him home, Lord, and may his final words live forever: “F###” the FCC!

Amen and be blessed!

John W. Lillpop

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By Jim Camp.

Generation Y, those born between the late 1970s and during the 1980s, is now entering the work force and, in the process they are transforming it, requiring Baby Boomers now facing retirement and Generation X’ers, born in the mid-1960s to late 70s, to face up to our short comings in our ability to negotiate.

Becoming better negotiators as a society will take us a long way down the road to protecting America’s future, both domestically and internationally. We must face it. Being able to negotiate with this cohort, estimated to number 70 million, is going to transform America’s workplace and is likely to impact the way we deal with the rest of the World in the future.

As the inventor of the Camp System of Negotiation and the father of five children and six grandchildren, any parent will tell you that every child hears “no” as the start of the negotiation, not the end of it!  Yet, we as a society are behind the children. We are steeped in compromise and will do almost anything to not say no or hear no.  Simply put, we are compromisers.

Thus, a generation that has grown up believing that compromise is the only approach to resolving problems is discovering in Generation Y a very different point of view.  This new generation is causing us baby boomers heartburn by essentially saying “NO” to values that us older folks believe.

The generation currently in charge of the nation’s affairs grew up in an era of “collective bargaining” that affected all its institutions, but bargaining is not negotiation. We think negotiation is a search for compromise and a fall-back position.  We don’t know that compromise is not a rule in negotiation.  In short we don’t know how to negotiate without compromise. That begs the question, if the Generation Y won’t compromise, won’t play ball our way, what do we do? 

Consider this, according to the Pew Research Center, 40 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds are not registered to vote. By 2015, Generation Y will make up one-third of the electorate.  How do we negotiate with them to get them involved sooner than later?

There’s a reason John McCain regularly appears on television shows like the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. There’s a reason why Barack Obama has a page on Face Book. Reaching this generation is going to be a critical negotiation in the next and future elections.

Getting Generation Y to actively participate in the affairs of the nation will only come from our ability to create a vision that will motivate their decision. It will not come from spewing out of hard facts that are not likely to accept on face value and it surely won’t come from our eagerness to appease them with compromise.

This is an amazing time. Information goes out in real time. Generation Y has seen rampant divorce, ineffective or corrupt government, the collapse of Enron and Arthur Anderson, pay to play in local government, jobs their families had go overseas and they communicate what they see globally from their cell phone.

They saw the fall of the Soviet Union, but have no memory of the nearly fifty years Americans negotiated our way through the Cold War with Communism. They don’t see their classmates or themselves being drafted so they have no personal risk and no stake in the outcome. This is reflected in a generational passivity. This explains in part why this post-Vietnam War generation has not been in the streets actively opposing the two conflicts in Iraq.  

In many ways they have no concept of international affairs. They travel the world easily and yet stay detached from international events that directly challenge American values and their way of life.

Studies reveal that more than half do not have a church affiliation, suicide is the third leading cause of death for Generation Y, a third of its young women have become pregnant at least once before the age of 20, and quite a few clearly see an entitlement to be happy, no matter what career path they pursue. 

They are unaffected by the history that got us where we are. Passing through a school system and a college environment that puts most of the blame on the United States, they arrive in the workplace with a warped vision and understanding of the most unique and successful experiment in democracy to have ever existed.

Told from birth that they are “special”, raised in a non-competitive environment where everyone gets a trophy and where “winning” is secondary to self-esteem, an older generation, the managers of corporations and other institutions, are discovering to their dismay that Generation Y responds to criticism by leaving, not changing.

A workplace that is compromising to accommodate Generation Y’s preference for less traditional relationships is not the answer. The workplace, like society, must learn to negotiate, create vision, say and hear no. That vision is going to influence how Generation Y responds. Their decision to take on—or avoid—serious challenges to our economy and our foreign policy will shape the future.

We are a nation that has institutionalized “compromise.” Generation Y is a product of a compromising society.  A give-in or fall-back attitude prevails all around them.  As a society we must change and create vision around that change.  It must be a vision Generation Y can embrace, one based on the values that have gotten America to this point in time.

The risk is that Generation Y will weaken America. Starting with “no” will still be the only way to deal with those who challenge our values, our beliefs.

Jim Camp is CEO of the Jim Camp Group, www.startwithno.com, and the author of two best selling books on the science of negotiation.

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The movie, “Recount”, arrives at a time when the Democrat Party is trying to determine whether the “popular” vote in its primaries takes precedent over the actual number of delegates, whether “pledged” or “super delegates” whose only allegiance is to (1) retaining their power in Congress and the Party and (2) actually trying to win the national election in November.

There is enough written about the 2000 election results in Florida to suggest that, had the Supreme Court not intervened and stopped the vote count, Al Gore would have won by the slimmest of margins, but that ignores the way the Gore campaign successfully got the absentee military votes that would have unquestionably put Bush over the top disqualified from consideration.

In short, Florida, where apparently the voters in Palm Beach County were retarded, remains a great historic muddle. In 2000 it became a battle ground between two evils, the Republican and Democrat parties.

In the end, George W. Bush won the election, became President, and, because of 9/11, transformed his presidency into a military conflict in Afghanistan and extended it into Iraq. The reason why there is so little news current coverage of events in Iraq is that some real measure of political stability has arrived and because no one in the mainstream media wants to report that Iran has been engaged in war with the U.S. and Iraqi troops there. That war was unofficially declared in 1979 when they took our diplomats hostage and held them for 444 days. Al Qaeda has since been reduced to the ravings of Osama bin Laden.

The reason why the cost of a barrel of oil has skyrocketed is because no one knows how long the de facto Iran-U.S. conflict with continue and whether it will erupt into a full-scale war involving our having to bomb and/or invade Iran to put an end to its nuclear ambitions and its endless intrusive efforts to impose its hegemony over the entire region.

It may be “a tiny country” as Barack Obama says, but it has been a very troublesome one for a very long time.

Meanwhile, despite Hollywood’s effort to convince Americans how much better off they would have been had Al Gore been elected, it would be useful to consider that he stands revealed as one of the greatest liars on the face of the Earth, thanks to his megalomania about global warming.

On Monday, May 19, the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, led by Dr. Arthur Robinson, held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to announce that its petition rejecting Al Gore’s and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lies, had been signed by 31,000 scientists from around the world. A total of 9,201 of the signers were PhDs and the rest held university degrees in science.

That is an impressive group of “deniers” and they are joined now by millions of people who understand that “global warming” is a hoax. Indeed, since 1998, all the meteorological data indicates that the Earth has entered a period of cooling. The oceans are cooling. Glaciers are growing. Winter blizzards are more intense. You don’t need a degree to know that global warming isn’t happening.

The movie, “Recount”, is propaganda, not history. Its stars and others involved in its production will swear that it is fact-based, but the fact is that, since 2001, and his reelection in 2004, George W. Bush has been the President of the United States.

The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 2008, notes that, “The Nov. 2000 presidential election was one of the closest in history. While Bush came out behind in the popular vote—by about 540,000 out of more than 100 million cast—the electoral vote total hinged on the outcome in Florida where official totals, challenged by Democrats, gave him a razor-thin lead.” The Supreme Court decision—a merciful end to the election—ceded Florida’s 25 electoral votes to Bush.

A mark of maturity is that an individual or a nation ultimately comes to acknowledge reality and acts upon facts, not emotions.

There is the Hollywood version of history and then there is reality. The two rarely coincide. 

One is tempted to consider what the passed eight years would have been like had Al Gore had been elected President.

His response to 9/11 might well have been to blame America for having angered al Qaeda in some fashion. One imagines a large mosque being built on Ground Zero in order to get Middle Eastern Muslims to like us more.

By now, based on his view that the internal combustion engine is a threat to humanity, it is likely that most voters would be on bicycles or horseback. All national parks would be off limits to Americans to protect the flora and fauna. There would be rolling blackouts due to a ban on the building of any nuclear or coal-fired plants to generate electricity. Every species known to man and God would have been declared endangered. And you would have to flush your toilet at least five times to achieve the results that preceded his election to office.

Alan Caruba writes a weekly commentary posted on the website of The National Anxiety Center, www.anxietycenter.com. He blogs at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.

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By Calvin E. Johnson Jr.

A Southern President was laid to rest on Memorial Day.
 
The Sons of Confederate Veterans have proclaimed 2008, as
the “Year of Jefferson Davis” and Davis’ 200th birthday, June 3,
2008, will be celebrated with many great events including the
reopening of his last home “Beauvoir” on the Mississippi Gulf
Coast.
 
Please share the following Memorial Day story with your family
and remember Monday, Mary 26th, is Memorial Day in the USA.
 
Listen closely, when the wind blows, and you may hear a train
whistle from the distance.

 
Many songs have been written about the passenger trains.
On Sunday, May 28, 1893, a few days before Memorial Day, a story
began in New Orleans, Louisiana that overshadowed all other events
reported in the newspapers of the north and south.
 
Jefferson Davis died in 1889 and over 200,000 people witnessed
his temporary burial at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans. Four
years later on a rainy Saturday, on May 27, 1893, the remains of
Jefferson Davis was removed and taken to Confederate Memorial
Hall where many people paid their last respects.
 
At 4:30 PM, May 28th, a funeral service was held for Mr. Davis
and a moving memorial address was delivered by Louisiana’s
Governor Murphy J. Foster as thousands listened. A reverent
silence fell among the people as the casket was given to the
commitment of Veterans from Virginia.
 
The procession then formed for a slow march to the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad Station on Canal Street.
 
Train No. 69, with Engineer Frank Coffin, waited patiently as
the casket was taken to the platform and passed through an
open observation car to a catafalque. The cars wall could not
be seen due to the many flowers.
 
This was the vision of Mrs. (Varina) Jefferson Davis when she
began three years previous to secure a funeral train and military
escort for a 1,200 mile train trip from New Orleans, Louisiana
to Richmond, Virginia.
 
Train engine No. 69, of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
slowly pulled out of New Orleans Station at 7:50 PM. L and N
railroad later became CSX Railroad.
 
Newspaper reporters from New Orleans, Richmond, Boston,
New York and the Southern Associated Press were guests on
the train.
 
After a brief Stop at Bay Saint Louis, and a slow-down at
Pass Christian, where hundreds of people lined the tracks, the
Jefferson Davis Funeral Train stopped at Gulfport, Mississippi
and “Beauvoir, www.beauvoir.org, that was the last home to
Jefferson Davis and his family. It was here that Davis wrote his
book, “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.”
 
Uncle Bob Brown, a former servant of the Davis family and a
passenger on the train, saw the many flowers that the children
had laid on the railroad tracks. Brown was so moved by this
beautiful gesture that he wept uncontrollably.
 
In Mobile, Alabama, the train was met at midnight by parents
who let their children stay up late to witness the  historic ocassion
that included a artillery salute. Locomotive No. 69 was retired and
Locomotive No. 25 was coupled to the train with Engineer C.C.
Devinney and Fireman Warren Robinson taking over.
 
The Atlanta Journal reported, quote, “The Cradle of the Confederacy
is ablaze with life and light tonight. Everything is ready for honoring
the memory of Jefferson Davis. Tomorrow morning with the rising
of the sun the funeral train from New Orleans will reach Montgomery.
unquote.
 
The train pulled into Montgomery at 6:00 AM, on the 29th. A
severe rainstorm delayed the funeral procession until 8:30 AM
when a caisson carried the body of Davis to Alabama’s capitol
building. A procession carried the casket through the portico
where Jefferson Davis, in 1861, had taken the oath of office as
President of the Confederate States of America.
 
The casket was placed in front of the bench of the Alabama
Supreme Court. Above the right exit was a banner with the word
“Monterrey” and above the left exit was a banner with the words
“Buena Vista.” During the Mexican War Jefferson Davis was a
hero at Monterrey and wounded at Buena Vista.
 
All Businesses and schools were closed, and church bells toiled
during the procession to and from the capitol. In a final tribute,
thousands of people in Montgomery, including ex-Confederate
soldiers and children, filed by the casket.
 
At 12:20 in the afternoon the funeral train departed over the
Western Railway of Alabama and Atlanta and West Point
Railroad for Atlanta. At West Point, Georgia the train stopped
under a magnificently-beautiful arch of flowers to pick up
Georgia’s Governor William J. Northen and his staff.
 
The funeral train pulled into Atlanta’s Union Station at 4:30 PM.
It is written that over 20,000 people lined the streets as the
funeral procession made their way to the state capitol. Atlanta’s
Old Gate City Guard stood guard over the president’s remains.
Among those in attendance was former Confederate General
John B. Gordon who had also been Governor of Georgia.
 
The Boston Globe reported, quote, ” Davis Funeral Train on
way north. Visions of the past called up. Living links of the past
cause. Sumter’s flag appears once more. Both banners on the
walls of Georgia’s capitol. Thousands look upon the dead leader.
Women of the South show their affection by flowers.” unquote.
 
At 7:00 PM the train pulled out of the station going north on
the Richmond and Danville Railroad, which later became Southern
Railroad and, today, Norfolk Southern Railroad. The train
traveled through Lula, Georgia, Greenville, South Carolina and
stopped in North Carolina at Raleigh. Davis’ remains were taken
to the North Carolina capitol building to lie in state.
 
A brief stop was made in Danville, Virginia where a crowd
gathered around the train and sang, “Nearer My God To Thee”
as the church bells toiled.
 
Finally, the train reached Richmond, Virginia on Wednesday,
morning, May 31, 1893. It was Memorial Day. Mrs. Davis met
the train and her husband’s casket was taken to the Virginia State
House to lay in state. There was no school this day and many
children brought flowers that they scattered about the casket.
 
At 3 PM on May 31, 1893, the funeral procession started for
Hollywood Cemetery with former Gen. John B. Gordon as Chief
Marshall. The caisson was driven by six white horses and earlier
rains kept the dust of the dirt roads from stirring.
 
With Mrs. Jefferson Davis were two of her daughters, Winnie
and Margaret. Six Southern governors acted as pall bearers.
Two hundred thousand people lined the streets and nearly
100,000 took part in the ceremony at the cemetery. The ceremony
concluded with a 21-gun salute followed by “Taps.”
 
It had been 28 years since the War Between the States ended, but
they came by the thousands to pay tribute to their former president.
In truth, they came to remember a hope and a dream. And all across
the South hundreds of thousands heard that train.
 
The Sons of Confederate Veterans of Virginia are planning to
erect a statue to Jefferson Davis and his African-American adopted
son, Jim Limber.
 
Lest We Forget!!
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