In Search of Our Better Angels By Hank Silverberg " We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”-- Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural address, March 4, 1861 (President Lincoln) I thought of Mr. Lincoln’s words a lot this past week. In part, it was because of a great book I am reading: In Search of America , by Jon Meacham. It looks at U.S. history not just through great battles or great men, but through the trials and errors which have swung our politics forward, backward and then forward again. He points out very distinctively that the division our country faces today is a continued struggle we have had since