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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
Please stop & pay respects to the 114th PA boys at the Sherfy Farm for me.
Mike
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