I'm here to tell you...
"We can never meet again."
Simple really...isn't it?
A word...or two and then...
A lifetime of not knowing...
Where or how or why or when.
You think of me...or speak of me...
Or wonder what befell.
The someone you once loved...
So long ago...so well.
Never wonder what I feel...
As living shuffles by.
You don't have to ask me...
And I need not reply.
Every moment of my life...
From now...until I die.
I will think...
Or dream of you...
And fail to understand...
"How a perfect love...
Can be confound...and out of hand?"
Is it written in the stars?
Are we paying for some crime?
Is that all that we are good for?
Just a stretch of mortal time.
Is this God's experiment...
In which we have no say?
In which we're given paradise...
But only for a day.
Nothing can they alter.
There is nothing to decide.
No escape...
No change of heart...
No any place to hide.
You are all I'll ever want.
But this...I am denied.
Sometimes...
In my darkest thoughts...
I wish I'd never learned...
"What it is to be in love...
And have that love returned?"
Is it written in the stars?
Are we paying for some crime?
Is that all that we are good for?
Just a stretch of mortal time.
Is this God's experiment...
In which we have no say?
In which we're given paradise...
But only for a day.
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.
Southerners assassinated both men.
Southerners succeeded both men.
Both successors were named 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 three names.
Both names are comprised of fifteen letters.
Booth and Oswald were both assassinated before their trials.
We've lost our bearing -- and we need a brand new start.
We have sinned against you, Lord -- forgive us -- heal this land.
Give us power -- give us strength -- from Your almighty hand.
Heal this land -- restore this nation.
Grant us wisdom to guide and set us free.
Take all wickedness and sin -- and cleanse us from within.
Hear our cry -- Heal this land.
Amen.
1. George Washington, 1789-1797
2. John Adams, 1797-1801
3. Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809
4. James Madison, 1809-1817
5. James Monroe, 1817-1825
6. John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
7. Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
8. Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841
9. William Henry Harrison, 1841
10. John Tyler, 1841-1845
11. James Knox Polk, 1845-1849
12. Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850
13. Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853
14. Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857
15. James Buchanan, 1857-1861
16. Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865
17. Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869
18. Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-1877
19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881
20. James Abram Garfield, 1881
21. Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885
22. Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889
23. Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893
24. Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897
25. William McKinley, 1897-1901
26. Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909
27. William Howard Taft, 1909-1913
28. Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
29. Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923
30. Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
31. Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933
32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
33. Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
34. Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961
35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963
36. Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969
37. Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974
38. Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977
39. James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981
40. Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989
41. George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
42. William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2000
43. George Walker Bush, 2001-
