A late Memorial Day posting.
For the past few years, I have had the custom of posting a short story honoring Memorial Day. This year I did something a little deferent. I took my new foster daughter to the following Civil War battlegrounds. Gettysburg, Antietam, Bull Run, and the Maryland Campaign. While we were not able to enter any of the museums and other indoor attractions. I was able to show her the battlefields thanks to something that I found on line. CDs provided by the National Parks that explain how, when, where, and why each battle was fought. Even though my foster daughter was taught about the Civil War in school she never had any real grasp of its scope. For the first time she understood the price that was paid by the men and women of the Civil war.
As my husband and I raise our yearly bottle of beer to our fallen brothers and sisters. I think about the real meaning behind Memorial Day. For far too many Memorial Day has become an excuse to party. Forgetting about the price that was paid for their freedom to act like morons. For those of us remember the meaning I salute you all. To our fallen brothers and sisters. Until we meet again at Fiddler’s Green.(raises cold mug of beer)
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A heartfelt thanks.....
To those who have fallen, and to those they have left behind.
Absent comrades.
D.E. Foard
Captain, USNR
D. Eden
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
Thanks to all who served in any capacity...
I wish you all fair winds and fallowing seas...
(Nope, not misspelled!) :)
Memorial Day
was originally called Decoration Day and like many I still prefer to observe this on May 30th. Your comments about the battlegrounds resonated with me. I like many of us had ancestors fighting there and at other sites on both sides. My maternal family has numerous ancestors buried in and around that area. My better half's family also has roots in that neck of the woods. I raise a glass to all.
Civil War Battlegrounds
I have to admit that as a Naturalized Citizen of the US. I have always found the Civil War of United States fascinating. Unlike in my homeland were the Civil War was fought over 'genetic purity'. The Civil War of the United States was fought over the preservation of ideals. The sheer magnitude of the US Civil War overshadows all others in the world. It saddens me to think that this great nation could wage such a war. As i walked the battle fields at Antietam and Gettysburg I saw there the birth place for the tactics of WW1. The trench lines were still clearly visible. My foster daughter at first thought I was joking about how the American Civil War was the first modern war of the 20th century. That was until I showed her the History Channel's documentary; World War 1 Apocalypse.
May the peace and happiness of the Goddess keep and protect you
as always your humble outlaw
Jessie Wolf
Per the US Civil War
I just finished watching, this AM, a 3 part miniseries on U S Grant, the winning general of the civil war and a 2 term (8 years) president of the US.
R E Lee, the Confederate States of America general in the eastern war around Washington DC and Richmond VA, the capitals of the north and south, was the top general in the US, pre-war and choose to fight for his state of VA rather than the USA. Lee was mostly successful against larger Union armies with inferior generals until Grant was called to the eastern theater and given charge of the entire Union war effort. Grant, with his twice as large army, beat Lee by continuously attacking even while taking much heavier casualties and making tactical mistakes. He wore Lee's army down and eventually surrounded Richmond, neighboring key cities, and finally Lee, forcing him to surrender.
Well.... the story is fresh in my mind; couldn't help myself.
Hugs and Bright Blessings,
Renee