Outside Abraham Lincoln's Tomb

Springfield, Illinois

You may recall my bringing your attention to Abe's left foot inside the tomb, well outside his poor nose has really taken some abuse.  There is a cornball belief that rubbing Abe's nose will bring you good luck.  In fact all it will give you his a handful of very nasty germs. 

You can see Abe had only a short distance to go 

to his final resting place above and behind his temporary abode.

 Good grief people, must we touch everything?  I just don't get it.

I had to take pictures through the bars of the top half of the iron gates for the rest of the photos.

Hmm...does this mean there are zombies in the woods nearby?

 I thought the green was mold but looking up it made me think
it was the coloring in the marble perhaps.

Gee, someone could put the doors back on the zombie vaults and sweep up the leaves ya think? 

That wouldn't require much but then it wouldn't give me something to rag about on my blog either.

It doesn't appear being a Lincoln was a good thing in the long run.

We, the people, are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.
-Abraham Lincoln

This country, with its institutions, belong to the people who inhabit it.  Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or the revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
- Abraham Lincoln