How do we know if someone is mad (as in crazy)? They live in a dream world? Their thought is unhinged from organic reality? They value to obsession various products of the imagination?
It fits most human beings on planet earth, and is not a crime against human dignity. Most people are well intended and nice enough just as they are. The problem: soldiers everywhere think they are on the right side.
It fits most human beings on planet earth, and is not a crime against human dignity. Most people are well intended and nice enough just as they are. The problem: soldiers everywhere think they are on the right side.
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At the Confederate Museum
The daughters of the Confederacy have a button from General Lee’s coat
At the Confederate Museum
The daughters of the Confederacy have a button from General Lee’s coat
And they have Stonewall Jackson’s canon
They have the bullet riddled battle flag of an overrun Ohio brigade
And a hipbone with a Minnie-ball lodged in it
And they have letters by the score
From the hands of men and boys swept up by war
To their women
On the street outside
The crowded Shenandoah Valley smelled of sulfur
(Dupont)
And there, so near
The gentle Blue Ridge
This purple mountain majesty
Was it any solace to the eyes of dying soldiers blue or grey
Whose blood now lives the flowers
Of Virginia fields
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They have the bullet riddled battle flag of an overrun Ohio brigade
And a hipbone with a Minnie-ball lodged in it
And they have letters by the score
From the hands of men and boys swept up by war
To their women
On the street outside
The crowded Shenandoah Valley smelled of sulfur
(Dupont)
And there, so near
The gentle Blue Ridge
This purple mountain majesty
Was it any solace to the eyes of dying soldiers blue or grey
Whose blood now lives the flowers
Of Virginia fields
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