Ranger presentation at Appamatox so well I could visualize Lee & Grant meeting to discuss the terms of surrender, laying down of arms, Confederate soldiers receiving their very important parole paper and heading home. I can almost “see” into the strong yet tender heart of President Lincoln desiring the healing of our new nation-and then he was shot.
Petersburg and Richmond, too, with all that fighting. The state of Virginia is covered with battlefields! Confederate soldiers fought for home & family, for Liberty, for slave labor which was the backbone of the Southern economy, for honor & duty. Union soldiers fought to preserve the Union and liberties granted in the constitution, for emancipation, and for honor and duty. Greater than 700,000 fought and died in the Civil War.
Can we now live in peace on earth?I am wondering if all nations could agree to a technology-based war, if it was found necessary, rather than physical wars with loss/harm to lives and earth, and untold quantities of resources spent on physical wars. What wonderful things might we create from those resources now devoted to offensive and defensive forces?
Now Is Heaven 