The now peaceful silence of Gettysburg is deceptive .
It thunders with memory - heavy with the long-gone boom of canon fire, the deadly hiss of rifles,
and the mutual slaughter of fifty thousand young men in just three days during the summer of 1863.
The battlefields roar with the echoes of high-minded principal and intense determination.
Grass and trees have healed the land, transforming it – for those who listen - into a sacred and contemplative place.
Gettysburg is too powerful for words, too profound for sound. We can only see it with gratitude and reverence.
