Heroes can be found anywhere, and anytime yet, there is one in particular that changed many things in this world and made us a free country. Everyone knows him as honest Abe, but to us he is considered hero. Yet what makes Abe such a fascinating hero, this is probably what everyone in this room is thinking and that is exactly why we are presenting this.

Issued the Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863 which gave freedom to slaves in the United States.(http://www.mccsc.edu/~jcmslib/mlk/lincoln/hero.htm)

Saved the Union, and he never gave up on his goals that America would one day become a free and united country.(http://www.nps.gov/liho/historyculture/legacy.htm)

Abraham Lincoln believed that they cannot escape history, so he worked hard to make a peaceful path in the future of the U.S. (http://www.wethepeople.gov/heroes/holzerlecture.html)

Abraham Lincoln believed that they cannot escape history, so he worked hard to make a peaceful path in the future of the U.S. (http://www.wethepeople.gov/heroes/holzerlecture.html)