there is a story of antietam just throwing graves down the farmers well because he had evacuated and wasn't investing in his properties of a kind of desperate unit union trying to get rid of bodies thrown down as well. it is often the case that units that haven't been in the battle were assigned to burial duties. often prisoners of war were given the duty. it is the way of demanding them and am forcing them to confront the often horrible and almost horrible work of burying the dead. at the same time, civilians were usually swarming onto the battlefield to look for with -- look for loved ones and also civilian swarmed the title field out of curiosity. there was a sense that the battle was a sublime event, that it was a historic event. and gawkers came to see what that meant. often they were horrified by what they saw and they fled from it. but nevertheless, soldiers often commented how having those civilians around just made the realities of dealing with the aftermath of battle all the more difficult. the desperate kinds of measures to which they turned to bury the dead, throwing them

european union ran eight hours on sunday nights and get about fifty thousand demonstrators from antietam on the same stuff schools and sign a landmark agreement to the european union in defiance of russia this morning and let fresh tensions between classes and please let's get to rule on this on correspondent of the cranky he is standing or lying. one of the demonstrations like now the baby to put them in the late evening the independent. the good the governor of the day right now. i feel it. you've got an iv. i think. but there are now gone. he did. open book. i'm the new deal. we thought. i did it better than that no one is going to give up. the attacks on the day that explains all of us the deal bligh has resonance in a context to sign on our side. he did not want you can buy it. the event. he could return to this country. or in the operation. i made it the event the latest in a committed. the b grade the hour. and the puppet. a crash in ukraine thinking than not. you tight and not let thousands of anti government protest is said and to the finance ministry compound in the country's c

i think that all young african- american students should be brought to places like , antietam, bull run and see the sacrifices they made for people they never knew. hitler made the same mistake when he was so confident that a american losing playboys or get off their couches to save a bunch of friends people. no republican ever owned a slave. caller: hi, this is offered. i had to memorize the gettysburg address in middle school and -- what ite to me showed to me was that we have always been an exceptional nation. i realized we are an exceptional a credoecause we are nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. that truly makes united states, our republic, unique among .ations of the world of the 18 century, france tried, but they are on their fifth republic. lenin tried in 1917 with the and that lasted about 75 years. so if you ask what a frenchman or china men or and the theyieves, can't say. i think that is what makes our republic exceptional. three thoughts on the state of the union especially in the light of the hundred 50th anniversary of the gettysburg addre