Question from a man on the street.

[richard]

A couple of days ago a man came up to me and asked,"Why would you want to place a marker honoring a Union Soldier in a Confederate cemetery in Tennessee?

My reply to him was in two parts. "Do you know where the Civil war was fought?" He answered, "yes, in the south of course."

"Tennessee is in the south and the place we set the marker was the site of the battle where he fought before it became a Confederate cemetery" was my reply.

He looked at me in puzzlement, shook his head and headed on down the street.

[ole]

Great story, Richard. The north/south difference has no place in honoring those who gave the last full measure of devotion.

ole

[Elennsar]

No place at all.

May the soldier you honored that day (and all the others who died during that cruel war) rest in peace.