that place in Nebraska

During the 1940s, no one gave much thought to the small farming community of North Platte, Nebraska, other than its residents and those who happened to pass through it as train passengers on the Union Pacific Railroad.

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‘My dear Little Miss,’

It was the sixth day of Abraham Lincoln’s nineteen-hundred-mile train ride through the northern states which had elected him the new president three months before.

He had departed Springfield the previous Monday morning, with a sad goodbye to a thousand friends and neighbors who had gathered at the train station in a cold rain to see him off.

The thirteen-day journey would culminate in Washington, D.C., where he would take the oath of office and appeal to the people’s ‘better angels’ to hold the nation together.

It was a dark time.

Seven Southern states had already seceded from the Union and more would soon follow.

Jefferson Davis would be sworn in as president of the Confederacy in two days.

But, for the new president, the trip was uplifting.

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‘More popular than Jesus.’

A big decline in church attendance was making news in Britain in March 1966 and twenty-five-year-old John Lennon commented on it during a long, rambling interview.

"Christianity will go.

“It will vanish and shrink.

“I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right.

“We're more popular than Jesus now.”

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the war bird

Today, it’s worth remembering that America is a nation which has long honored courage.

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a dirty business

It is a practice as old as time.

Trade what you have to get what you want.

And East Germany, a communist dictatorship under the control of the Soviet Union, wanted so much after the war.

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finding the truth

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a man of good character

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to warn the people

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saving John Lewis

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the deserters

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