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What, you might ask, is a Lincoln shrine doing in Redlands, California? It was the work, in 1932, of a family of philanthropists memorializing their son who had died of wounds suffered in World War I, as well as Lincoln. The Great Emancipator and, had he lived, probably the Great Conciliator, was murdered 143 years ago Monday, and died the next morning. Lest we forget.