History ignores ignorant critics, recalls drama

To the editor:

At the time Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg to give a short speech on the hallowed ground of the battlefield, shrill critics were calling him a baboon and a tyrant, as well as other unprintable epithets. History has long forgotten those ignorant critics in the same way it will forget the ciphers who are criticizing George W. Bush for his sense of history and drama in traveling to the USS Abraham Lincoln to give his moving talk to the troops.

MORLEY SWINGLE

Cape Girardeau