Saturday, March 20, 2010

Gettysburg Reenactment

Not long ago, I posted a story about Abraham Lincoln on this blog. A friend left a comment saying that , although Lincoln was taught scripture by his mother, he never embraced a relationship with Jesus, until he saw the dead at Gettysburg.

This is another story from the book "Pictures Your Heart Remembers" by John Trent:

"On the fiftieth anniversary of The Battle of Gettysburg, there was a reunion of the veterans who fought there. Someone had the idea to recreate the scene of Pickett's charge. The Union soldiers took their place on the ridge. The Confederate soldiers took their place on the field.

Someone sounded the charge, and the Union soldiers came out of hiding, running toward the Confederates. Before they reached each other, though, something incredible happened.

The whoops and hollers turned to tears. And when they collided on the field, they fell into each other's arms, weeping."