I started watching because I thought the veterans' comments would be interesting. But instead of veterans I found this young man expressing his warm pleasure at his superiority to those who studied and/or commented on the battle in the past, and particularly to the unAware and insensitive clods who actually celebrated (i.e. had fun) instead of soberly viewing (i.e. not having fun) the events of 1863, irritated me so much I have turned the video off. Every generation thinks it is smarter and more sensitive and in general better than the ones that came before it, but I don't have to listen to a speech about it.
There a great lecture speaker who i remember saying you have to remember the way people were in that time frame, that the thing u can't change that fact its how people were in 1863, i think people want to change it now time to make themsleves feel better and i think that honestly is a huge diservice to how it should be remembered.
So for the centennial we looked at the roses and ignored the thorns. For the sesquicentennial we focused on the thorns and denied roses ever existed. I wonder what the bicentennial will bring?
Those berries could've been a temporary phenomenon . He noted the berries were not there the next time he visited. The blood probably temporarily enriched the soil causing those red berries to appear.
