Free Write 2/16/2012

The best piece of research that I have come in contact with probably would have to be a book on Abraham Lincoln that my brother had to read over a summer during his middle school years.  My dad stayed home that summer and decided that he wanted to read the book along with my brother to help him understand the material.  The book went into detail about Lincoln's entire life, from early childhood until the day he was assassinated.  This book has stuck with our familiy ever since we read it because now my dad has some sort of infatuation with Abraham Lincoln and anything that relates to him.  Living in D.C., he gets to see a lot of Abraham Lincoln things such as the Lincoln Memorial and Lincoln running the presidents race every home game for the Washington Nationals.  This piece of research really resonated with him and, in turn, resonated with our entire family.