Moonshiner
Corporal
- Joined
- Mar 19, 2015
- Location
- Midwest
I know some are following my thread "I'm In Gettysburg - Feeling Humbled", I've been posting my better photographs there and some of my travels news, but today I thought I needed a new thread for this one.
We went to Harpers Ferry and Antietam today. While watching the presentation from a Park Ranger in Harpers Ferry, a small tour group comes in followed by an older gentleman with a walking stick. Instantly I knew who it was and wanted to jump up and greet him.... But I waited until after the presentation. I approached him and first congratulated him on his nomination for the Presidential Gold Medal, and then for all of his years of giving of himself to the cause of preserving Civil War history. He was extremely grateful and had that twinkle in his eye. He thanked me and asked me where I was from so we talked just a few short minutes.
He is must frailer than I expected and is quite hard of hearing it seems, but that didn't matter, I met ED BEARSS!
We went to Harpers Ferry and Antietam today. While watching the presentation from a Park Ranger in Harpers Ferry, a small tour group comes in followed by an older gentleman with a walking stick. Instantly I knew who it was and wanted to jump up and greet him.... But I waited until after the presentation. I approached him and first congratulated him on his nomination for the Presidential Gold Medal, and then for all of his years of giving of himself to the cause of preserving Civil War history. He was extremely grateful and had that twinkle in his eye. He thanked me and asked me where I was from so we talked just a few short minutes.
He is must frailer than I expected and is quite hard of hearing it seems, but that didn't matter, I met ED BEARSS!
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