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Timothy Jacobsen / AP
A portion of the 23,110 luminaries placed around the Antietam National Battelfield in Sharpsburg, Md., are shown in front of the New York Monument on Saturday, Dec. 4. Over 1,100 volunteers helped place and light the paper bag covered candles, which commemorate the soldiers who were killed or wounded during the three day Civil War battle.
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Maybe we should bury all of these monuments and memorials as well as all on the victims headstones as a true testament to the utter failure of humanity that is represented by war.
Bury your head in the sand too.
Remember history or you are doomed to repeat it.
Yes, and when history repeats itself (which could be in the near future), we can blame it on slavery too!
Cleareye, you need to change your handle, your disgusting cynicism and profound ignorance of the realities of the Civil War make your vision anything but clear.
Paul,
Just exactly what slavery are you refering too? Slavery to the tax burden of debt created by Odumbo and his accomplices in congress?
For now we remember the Americans(North and South) Lost 150 years ago, while we keep our Powder Dry for events yet to come, as History continues to repeat itself. When you have a Dysfunctional Government which No longer Listens to the People, adheres to the Constitution, or remembers the Declaration, then we are doomed, yet we the People are resilient and have and can overcome things, However we once more find our selves being Tested as a Nation one more time, What will History reveal 150 years from now?
When I was 5 or 6, (1945-1946) I had the good fortune of talking a very old family friend who had beena teen-aged boy in the Winchester, VA area during the Civil War. Winchester changed hands 75 times during the Civil War, and he recalled that it was not infrequent to have his family home searched by both armies on the same day. He told me how upset his mother would get when the soldiers tracked mud into her home during their searches, or stole chickens and eggs from her coop. He remembered talking to the soldiers (probably cavalry) when they watered their horses on the farm and described men from both sides as being friendly. I only wish I had written it all down.......
Our family was split during that war with relatives on both sides. According to family lore, two uncles had contracts with both the Confederate and Union armies to recover and bury the dead of both sides around the Winchester and Martinsburg, W Va. areas.
The horror that must have been prevalent in this travesty wrought on mankind. I lost body parts in Vietnam and had the benefit of pain killers, induced coma, expert medical attention and all in all, I no longer consider that suffering significant. I cannot imagine having ones leg blown off by a cannon ball and laying there in a field suffering and bleeding to death after several hours of agony. Trying to rest on the cold hard ground in the winters or the ever scourging of the summer sun and humidity. 600,000 casualties, this is a significant number and we would do well to remember.