Today Gettysburg celebrates Remembrance Day. This year is the 142nd anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address dedicating the National Cemetary in Gettysburg. There will be parades, speeches, wreaths will be laid and reenactors will swarm the town.
Civil wars are often bloodier than wars not fought between members of the same country. It's as if we try to convince ourselves that our brother is indeed "other" and enemy.
Four years ago on this day, my mother and father-in-law visited us in our new home in Gettysburg. They have both since passed away and we miss them dearly. So, for us, this is indeed "Remembrance Day." Death, even when expected, is a great loss for those of us left in this life to mourn.
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