I found myself to be more affected by the trip to Gettysburg than I expected to be. Those beautiful preserved landscapes got to me. Looking much like they would have in 1863, it was impossible to imagine the scene as troops met in that peaceful looking place, and so many of them died there.
Fields and fences, beautiful now, as I’m sure they were then. The town was there, and quiet farms, and then the armies came.The hills, the high ground, sought after by both sides.I hope you can read this account of the day. I usually zoom in on the signage, but in this place I wanted the landscape to show also.I used this picture in a previous post, but it does bring the lesson home.What would it be like to charge up a hill in the face of canon fire?Another account of battle.The caption on the eternal flame reads, ‘Peace Eternal in a Nation United.’Another landscape that I found so pretty, but the monument is in addition to what it may have looked like at the time.Just as the battle came to the people who settled this land back then, the townspeople now go about their business among armies of tourists who come to remember.
We attended a screening of the movie Casablanca the other day at the Tampa Theater. We did this last August also, but this time the scene depicting the German army occupying Paris stood out to me. Another war, people helpless in the face of armies, and with much different weapons. And then my mind went to the war in the Ukraine, and I’m stunned to think that people are again, or should I say still, experiencing the horrors of war.
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