It’s been a busy few weeks here, and as I prep to leave for Nashville for the Blissdom Conference in less than 24 hours, I am ever so grateful for Wordless Wednesday! 
70 miles west of Key West lies the Dry Tortugas National Park and Fort Jefferson. It is the most remote and least visited of our national parks and is only accessable by boat or plane. Ron and I took a sea plane to visit it and snorkel around it when we celebrated our 20th anniversary in Key West in September.
Fort Jefferson was once envisioned as the largest link in America’s coastal defense system. Its original purpose was to control navigation into the vast Gulf of Mexico and protect the Atlantic-bound Mississippi River trade from piracy. Begun In 1846, it used 16 million bricks – making it the largest masonry structure in the Western Hemisphere – although it was never actually finished. Later, conspirators in the Lincoln assassination were imprisoned there. (keywesttravelguide.com)
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.
Abraham Lincoln
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