interesting history...

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LINCOLN / KENNEDY (MIND BOGGLING)
HERE'S A LITTLE PART OF US HISTORY WHICH MAKES YOU SIT UP AND GO HMMMMMMM.........

ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS ELECTED TO CONGRESS IN 1846
JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS ELECTED TO CONGRESS IN 1946.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT IN 1860.
JOHN F.KENNEDY WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT IN 1960.
THE NAMES LINCOLN AND KENNEDY EACH CONTAIN SEVEN LETTERS.
BOTH WERE PARTICULARLY CONCERNED WITH CIVIL RIGHTS.
BOTH WIVES LOST CHILDREN WHILE LIVING IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
BOTH PRESIDENTS WERE SHOT ON A FRIDAY.
BOTH PRESIDENTS WERE SHOT IN THE HEAD.
LINCOLN'S SECRETARY WAS NAMED KENNEDY.
KENNEDY'S SECRETARY WAS NAMED LINCOLN.

BOTH WERE ASSASSINATED BY SOUTHERNERS.
BOTH WERE SUCCEEDED BY SOUTHERNERS.
BOTH SUCCESSORS WERE NAME JOHNSON.
ANDREW JOHNSON, WHO SUCCEEDED LINCOLN, WAS BORN IN 1808.
LYNDON JOHNSON, WHO SUCCEEDED KENNEDY, WAS BORN IN 1908.
JOHN WILKES BOOTH, WHO ASSASSINATED LINCOLN, WAS BORN IN 1839.
LEE HARVEY OSWALD, WHO ASSASSINATED KENNEDY, WAS BORN IN 1939.
BOTH ASSASSINS WERE KNOWN BY THEIR THREE NAMES.
BOTH NAMES ARE COMPRISED OF FIFTEEN LETTERS.
LINCOLN WAS SHOT AT THE THEATER NAMED "KENNEDY".
KENNEDY WAS SHOT IN A CAR CALLED "LINCOLN".
BOOTH RAN FROM THE THEATER AND WAS CAUGHT IN A WAREHOUSE.
OSWALD RAN FROM A WAREHOUSE AND WAS CAUGHT IN A THEATER
BOOTH AND OSWALD WERE ASSASSINATED BEFORE THEIR TRIALS.
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AND HERE'S THE KICKER....
A WEEK BEFORE LINCOLN WAS SHOT, HE WAS IN MONROE,MARYLAND
A WEEK BEFORE KENNEDY WAS SHOT, HE WAS IN MARILYN MONROE. :)
I received this in an email, sorry about the caps, Im too lazy to rewrite it...Cuz

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"What is steel to the hand that weilds it?" James Earl Jones
 
Jesus, Cuz, where have you been for the last 36 years? :)

Oh yeah, the bayou, that's right. ;)

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"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it."
-- John Hay, 1872
 
Except for the silliness at the end, this comparison is about 35 years old. Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre, Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln - a Ford product.
 
OK so im a lil slow...heck we just figured out how to get dem electric wires across the bayou without the water shorting em out!
Remember people, I come from a place where people have more horsepower in their boats than they have in their autos :) This internet stuff is sorta new to us..heck im even considered a rich man-my trailer has 3 axles ;)
 
If your idea of a house warming party is when the neighbors come over to help remove the wheels, then you might be .... :D
 
Cuz, I don't know how to break this to you, so I'm just going to give it to you straight - we've also put men on the moon ... ;)

Now, if you can figure out how to work Bill Clinton in on this one, then that could be interesting.

[Notice to the Secret Service - this is just a little joke, guys.]
 
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