Yet the Lincoln Memorial has been with us just 100 years. That was 57 years after President Abraham Lincoln was felled by an assassin’s bullet scant days after the Civil War had officially ended. But the memory of my first visit to the Lincoln Memorial itself remains as clear as the cold, moonlit night I made it on. But there sat President Lincoln, carrying burdens few would ever understand during America’s greatest crisis, pointing the way forward. But only in 1911, when Congress formed a new Lincoln Memorial Commission, did things really get moving.

Source: CNN May 31, 2022 00:49 UTC