Michael R.
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The only other place that I have been where I felt anything similar in my chest was on the battlefield at Shiloh.
Shiloh isn't far from me , out from Savannah TN , its a sad place , to me there's a heaviness over the ground . Fort Pillow down on the river is too , and others . I've been to Gettysburg as a kid .
As far as the western campaign and the Indian Wars , I read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee , and used to have the book , somewhere . Many of the conflicts were unavoidable , and the things done to the Men , Women , and Children unconscionable . The many paid for the actions of a few . I could relate to Crazy Horse , Sitting Bull and others trying to protect their people , food supply , and their land . Massacres on both sides , broken treaties , Pox infected blankets , killing off the buffalo in mass , starvation , killing their horses and breeding many with draft horses , taking children from their families , I can see both sides , but to me RR expansion and Big Business pulled some strings , more than the rescue of poor pilgrims and settlers . Men from the Creation of the world will be judged by the RIGHTEOUS JUDGE in that Day .
Sorry for getting off the Thread Topic .