What draws me to the story of Gettysburg is the story of the lives of the men, who no matter on which side they served on, who all fought and whether they died on the battlefield, or lived and either died from their injuries months or years later, or died from a natural death their story needs needs to live on and the events that led up to greatest loss on life on American soil and how it can be avoided in the future.
I'm a retired Texas composite social studies high school teacher. The curriculum has been so downgraded beyond comprehension. I taught U.S. history and there was 1 page in the textbook about the civil war. I retired after my first queer parent conference. Texas had given a boy to a foster queer couple. The boy called the couple his brothers. I taught at a predominantly Texas black high school in the 90s for 2 years. The school never played our National Athem, but played the Black Anthem at school assemblies. Congressman showed up like the crook Representative Lewis. After my combat experience in the Republic of Vietnam '68, I got all those fancy degrees. I interned under the crook Governor Jimmy Carter '74. Carter loved the commune Habitat for Humanity. Carter oversprayed Georgia with toxic fire ant spray. It didn't work. I worked in government for 2 years. My first meeting in DC was with a drunk democRAT senator named Talmadge. The congressman I worked with went to jail. Godspeed.
At a time when scholarship, multi-layered thinking, nuance and even history itself seem increasingly ephemeral, it gives me and so many of us such pleasure to enjoy presentations like this, which respect the human and historical forces with such reverence, dedication and even humor when needed. My deepest thanks to all you great rangers at Gettysburg.
Im so sick of Joshua Chamberlain...boring AF. Nobody knew of him until the 'Gettysburg' film. The Wheatfield was insane. Where are the movies about that?
