A Babbling Stream of Semi-Consciousness
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This photo is by photographer Gerald Waller, and was published in Life magazine in 1946. It shows an Austrian orphan with a pair of new shoes given to him by the Red Cross.
It may be my all-time favorite photo. It seemed appropriate for today.
Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address 150 years ago today — or as Gwen Ifill said tonight on the PBS NewsHour, “four score and seventy years ago.”
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns put together this mashup of famous people reciting the address: