A Return To Normalcy

Been awhile since I last posted. Was on vacation, believe it or not. Wanted to post my impressions of Gettysburg but was hard to immediatly after. On that field, those green patches of corn, the destiny of the entire country was decided, and over fifty thousand casualties killed or maimed. To be on such ground is something else, and I feel so very lucky to be able to live as I do thanks to the monumental sacrifices of young men of one nation in two factions. Think people forget how much suffering our ancestors endured for an ideal of freedom and equality, to end enslavement of human beings but also to fight for the rights of their beloved states, towns, counties. The cold comfort is that not a Billy or Johnny out of 550,000 died in vain. Makes me appreciate being a citizen that much more. Still hard to imagine the weight of the outcome, the results of that battle, and on (now) peaceful Pennsylvania fields. Also wonderful to see so many people there knowing the debt we owe to that blood soaked sacred ground.