Mundane

As I think I’ve mentioned before, I read almost exclusively non-fiction books.  I also tend to read slowly because I like to “fill in the blanks” as I’m reading.  I’ll look up locations on Google Earth.  I look up people and events to fill in the details.  It’s more of a study than a read. 

Currently I’m reading Lee’s Lieutenants by Douglas Southall Freeman.  I’m just wrapping up volume 2 and moving into volume 3.  At the end of volume 2 is the battle of Chancellorsville and the death of General Jackson.  As is my habit, I have spent some time combing through the battlefield online.  Here’s where Jackson was shot by his own troops:

Doesn’t it seem so mundane?  How many people drive past that spot of woods and never know what happened there?  For that matter, thousands of men bled and died in the woods around there.  Now it’s just a road and a clump of trees.  Huh.

Cultural Milestone

It has to be a sign of the times when this is a news story:

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