This moment outdoors is brought to you by L.L. Bean, official partner of the National Park Foundation for

the Find Your Park Movement. I'm going to see. With malice toward none, with charity for all.

With firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right.

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

To bind up the nation's wounds,

to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan.

To do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with and That's the conclusion of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address.

It's not Lincoln's most famous speech, but it's close.

And those last words are as fine as anything he ever wrote or spoke.

A month later, the war was over after the surrender at Abamatics.

Lincoln waited for two days to speak again.

He opened,

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

Gladness of heart was something quite different from happiness.

Lincoln was looking ahead to the reconstruction of the nation, but it would take place

without him.

His would-be assassin, a notable stage actor, was at both speeches,

biting his time until the moment arrived

on his home turf.

I'm Jason Epperson,

and this week

week Ford's Theater was first constructed in 1833 as the first Baptist church.

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