Part two: Sach's Covered Bridge
Part three: Gettysburg National Cemetery
Forever Here Now
there are so many
monuments to fallen men
markers of the dead
groups from near and far
they left their homes and families
to fight for ideals
they killed and were killed
on these rocks and in these fields
the tens of thousands
we erected stones
hunks of granite and marble
stood against the sky
they stand as markers
so many they make us numb
and lose all meaning
troops and generals
fallen from so many states
remembered in stone
sentries that don't see
the ghosts that gather around
forever here now
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| Often it's the simple things that have the greatest impact. This is a grave stone inside the National Cemetery. The elaborate monuments of generals and angels and the exquisite architecture of the bigger memorials didn't have the impact on me as this small, simple stone. Two words and a number. |
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