"Makes you realize how," murmured a woman standing beside me as Simpson's grave marker was unveiled. She had a pronounced Southern accent and was wiping her eyes, clearly moved.
Aiming her Canon camera at the whiskered Union and Confederate re-enactors standing at attention beside the graves, she cleared her throat and added, "Every American ought to be here this morning to see this. If they did, we might not be in such a big ugly rush to tear each other apart."
“Every American ought to be here this morning to see this. If they did, we might not be in such a big ugly rush to tear each other apart.”
Great words. Too bad Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan didn’t subscribe to them, things would have been different.
Today, it is almost impossible to imagine Americans getting into such a brutal internal conflict that 10% of the male population is killed. That would be the equivalent of 15,000,000!