April 12: A painful date in U.S. history
Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a lot of media coverage and discussion about the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. In fact, the war began on this day in 1861 when Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. What many people might not realize is that April 12 is also the date when President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Georgia in 1945, just a few months before World War II ended. Roosevelt, our…