Editor:
Each of us will eventually own three names. The first name is given at birth; the second we create each living day and, finally, the third we are remembered by after we are gone.
When Abraham Lincoln was 24 years old, he served as the postmaster of New Salem, Ill., for an annual salary of $55.70. Even then, 24 years before he entered the White House, the rail-splitter gained the character that earned him…