A couple of times per year, I just have to go to Gettysburg. I’m drawn by the place, and I have to go there to re-charge my batteries. I’ve only been there once this year, in June, and I’ve been hearing the call.
I’m outta here in about 90 minutes for a weekend in Gettysburg. Should be two-and-a-half days of good battlefield stomping. Even though it will be chilly, the worst day of battlefield stomping is still better than that best day of work. 
See y’all on Sunday night.
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Eric:
Please stop & pay respects to the 114th PA boys at the Sherfy Farm for me.
Mike
Dear Eric,
Like Mike, I also ask you to pay my respects to the 24th Michigan near Willoughby’s Run!
Harry S. Stout’s excellent work–Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War–discusses the idea of America’s civil religion. Americans are a religious people because one becomes an American by believing a creed that begins with the words “we hold these truths to be self evident”. If America has a civil religion, and I believe that it does, certainly Gettysburg is “holy ground” where the martyrs for the faith died. Going there does give one (at least it does me) a kind of mystical experience. Even someone like myself, who is opposed to a civil religion, experiences a thrill when going to the battlefield.
Have a safe trip, a good time and return with more interesting insights and observations about the great drama that occurred there.
Best wishes always,
Lanny
Regretably I’m a “muster orphan” this year as the responsibilities of career, family etc. have once again interfered. I’ll be looking forward to a good after action report!
Thanks, guys. It was a great weekend, and I’m really beat.
Sadly, it’s back to my normal grind tomorrow.
Eric