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Wow! Never to late to learn! Robert E Lee had his confederate soldiers capture blacks & take them South. Their orders were to leave the whites property alone & take blacks property. Good thing some whites caught them and brought the black ppl back to Gettysburg....amazing!
Quite astounding to think they fought in the Civil War and lived long enough to fly over it in an airplane - reading up on it, some Civil war veterans even lived long enough to see the end of World War II!
What an amazing photo. Your posts are so thoughtful -- they take our mind off of our current day worries.
Thank you for your thoughtful posts
Our history is so short as we see events overlap just a few generations. And our democracy and our Union seem very fragile viewed this way. It takes only a couple of bad players.
Imagine how they felt seeing and riding in an airplane, after fighting at Gettysburg in 1863. Rest in Peace soldiers.
I can't even imagine their amazement on being on an airplane!
Yeah man! They look like their abt 70 or 75, maybe older. They saw big change fo sho!
Probably at least late 80s to lower 90s. 74yrs between 1864 to 1938. Probably at yougest was 15 yrs old. COOL PIC!!
Yes, 1863 , sorry.
The seated veteran is the accomplished photographer, William Henry Jackson. There is a fascinating essay on him here, from the Wyoming Historical Society: https://tinyurl.com/ybh88jco
Oh my. That is a moving photo. Even being in a plane like that - what had they seen in their lives?
This should be one of the most iconic photos of all time. Those veterans had to have been over 90 which for those days was ancient.
I wonder if either of those men made it to the premiere of Gone With The Wind the next year. I always tear up when I see the footage of Civil War veterans of both sides attending that premiere.
This is a perfect post Michael. Thank you.
Very moving.
I’m old enough to remember when poppies were worn to honor the fallen ones. “In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row...”
Funny, a lot of people don’t it was first adopted by the American Legion after WWI.
I know it only too well. A bunch of the Thunder Riders are staying at the hotel across the street.
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