What a beautiful day on the east coast.....

[hotwine]

I'm continually amazed at the stories of that war. I try to envision myself as an infantryman under the intense artillery bombardment that so characterized those engagements, and am absolutely amazed at the raw courage of the participants. I've endured heavy artillery, and witnessed grown men losing it and crying like babies, but that didn't come close to what those fellows endured. Lost a lot of relatives on the Soutern side, in east Tennessee. Must have been hell on earth....everybody was family, friend, neighbor, being butchered by the thousands. As many men were lost in three days at Gettysburg as in the entire Vietnam War. Incredible. Holy ground.