ON Christmas Day 1862, North Carolina soldier Constantine A. Hege wrote his parents, full of the homesickness and weariness that gripped many a soldier that second Christmas of war.
‘Christmas has come once more and it is a very beautiful morning,’ Hege began, ‘but O! how changed the scene to what it was last Christmas. To day twelve months ago i was home where I could enjoy the blessings of a comfortable house and home of parents and friends of a religious worship, but this Christmas I am surrounded by warriors, cannons, and guns… But I hope and pray that the good Lord in his tender mercy may soon bring this state of things to an end and restore Peace and prosperity to our beloved Country again and turn the hearts of the rules to peace for ever instead of war.’
– From the book, ‘God Rest Ye Merry, Soldiers: A True Civil War Christmas Story’ by James McIvor
And here we are again, a nation divided.
The political and financial elites have unified in an effort to divide America and conquer the spoils in their quest for maximum power while attempting to destroy not just a nation but an ideal; that of America.
This post was published at John Galt Fla on December 24, 2014.
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