Ohio troops after four years of the Civil War. |
The American Civil War still fascinates, probably because it never ended. It is still a human struggle where everyone sacrifices.
This is bluegrass style waltz-timed music, written in the 1980s, Pashokan Farewell. Ken Burns used it in his documentary, "The Civil War.'
'Sullivan Ballou Letter, from Ken Burns' Civil War.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxDP6q6C5mE&feature=related
War is just so sad. People, usually young, demolished and left in pieces; families heartbroken permanently. Homes razed. Nothing is settled because human nature doesn't change.
In the US, folks reenact the battles of the Civil War every year. The following link is profoundly insightful--almost ghostly as the reenactors pose in 2012 America.
A Civil War In The Olive Garden Parking Lot
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/05/24/153608877/a-civil-war-in-the-olive-garden-parking-lot
The Colonists were mostly interested in finance, right? |
I've decided not to include gruesome photos of the dead, or the trenches, or videos of American teenagers losing a leg to an improvised roadside device.
But here is a well-known poem from WWI.
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
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