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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=559242" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Independence and Reconciliation Celebration</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It began with heartbreaking remembrance, <br>the acrid smell of canon fire still in the air <br>after half a century, the exhausted climb <br>up Cemetery Hill still felt in their muscles—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They had returned, veterans from both sides, <br>North and South, to re-enact their movements <br>on the last of those bloody three days <br>of the Battle of Gettysburg. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the final Southern charge of the war~ <br>12,500 Confederate soldiers led by <br>General George Pickett went straight up <br>that hill and into the line of fire by Union <br>troops waiting behind a stone wall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pickett lost half his men. <br>Of the 160,000 Americans <br>on both sides,51,000 or more<br>died in those three days <br>of the Battle of Gettysburg<br>in our Civil War. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On July 3,1913, the 50th anniversary of Pickett's Charge, <br>50,000 surviving veterans traveled to the same place<br>in Pennsylvania, <br>the youngest among them at 61 and the eldest purported to be 112.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The commemoration ended <br>with Confederate veterans <br>walking the path they'd taken <br>up Cemetery Hill to the stone wall <br>where Union veterans were waiting <br>to shake their hands and embrace them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In 1938, President Franklin Roosevelt <br>met with nearly 2,000 still living veterans <br>for the battle's 75th anniversary. <br>Their average age was 94.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The President dedicated <br>the Eternal Light Peace Memorial <br>to commemorate that most truly civil reunion <br>and reconciliation embrace of 1913. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today its flame can be seen <br>from a distance of twenty miles.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the front of the memorial <br>are words carved in stone~ <br>'Peace Eternal in a Nation United.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though we are in another fractious election year, <br>through all our fears and differences, <br>may it be so. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">May civility rule with compassion and reason <br>in creating new paths to peace. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the hundredth anniversary next year, <br>may the way ahead be brighter.<br>May we keep holy the day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Diamonds in a Stony Field~ <br>copyright 2012.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alla+Renee+Bozarth">Alla Renee Bozarth</a><div class=q>
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