Dead at Gettysburg

This 150th anniversary of the most tragic battle to ever occur on American soil always makes me stop and reflect on the consequences of disagreement taken to the extreme. We are fortunate that the results were what they were and we can now live in relative peace. The current infantile posturing of our legislators points to how the failure to get on with the business of running the most powerful nation on earth underscores what spawns conflicts that can rage out of control.