Retired Massachusetts State Trooper Lawrence Smith says that when he showed up for work on June 4, 2014 he found that a sergeant who was supposed to be at the barracks in Newbury was actually at home.
It mattered because the trooper who was covering for the sergeant not he desk at the barracks didn't know basic information about patrols on the road, including which troopers were performing them and where they were, Smith told MassLive.com.
The author, William Marvel, lambastes the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois as "loud, cheap, and mawkish" and "a cross between a chintzy wax museum and the Hall of Horrors at the Fryeburg Fair."
He also criticizes fixations over historical memorabilia and monuments as draining money that could be used to preserve historic battlefields. Restoration of Civil War battle flags also comes in for scorn.
