J.A. Bozman (1833-1903) & SYMPATHY (second dictionary meaning: UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE; COMMON FEELING) 

Colonel Bozman wrote this column during the last year of his life. It was published in the Saturday, September 19, 1903 issue of the TUSCALOOSA TIMES-GAZETTE. Colonel Bozman died less than three months later on December 5, 1903. He was buried in old Greenwood Cemetery on 9th Street by First African Baptist Church.   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97799189/james-alexander-bozman

SYMPATHY AND GRATITUDE, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ~ Sympathy & Gratitude are Entwined One With the Other Until They Are Inseparable.

"Somewhere the earth is green,

No matter if winter be here today,

Down through the air the snowflakes play,

Yet somewhere the earth is green." 

"Have we as a people, as a nation, become so absorbed in greed for money-making, that we disregard the Biblical injunction of 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.?' " ~ Colonel James Alexander Bozman