Following the Dead: Road Trip, Part 2

August 23, 2011 by Galina Krasskova

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Country One very good thing I discovered was that at Gettysburg the dead were very well tended. The Union cemetery there was spotless, the stories of the battle and those who fought in it are memorialized throughout the town, and all in all they are very well remembered. There was no aching loss, or hunger, or pain at having been forgotten, or dismissed, or otherwise treated with disrespect. Here the dead were part and parcel of the lives of everyone living in that town. It was the first time I had visited a place where there were so many dead present, who were so well and consistently honored.

Late in the afternoon, we departed for Fredericksburg, where our ancestor work would continue.

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About Galina Krasskova

The author of several books on the Northern Tradition, Galina Krasskova is a Heathen priest, shaman, and devotee of Odin. She blogs at Gangleri's Grove.

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