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Originally Posted by miraja2

Others may appreciate this as well, but I'm almost sure you will find this interesting:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/op...pagewanted=all

David Blight is one of the best historians around.

thanks for posting this. i knew why memorial day started, but others may not. just finished the shelby foote trilogy the other day. 20 years worth of effort by him~im glad he put forth the effort.
have the history channel set to dvr tonite for the gettysburg show.
that war was a painful, horribly bloody too long chapter in our history. so costly, with every major battle surpassing the previous one in lives lost.