mrs. overton, and the lovely mrs. radcliffe. we had a great day today. the honor is mine to be standing here before you today as a member of the sesquicentennial commission and as a representative of history 150 years ago. this journey has been a true blessing for me. the people i have been associated with, for what we have accomplished during this 150th commemoration of the civil war in the state of tennessee, for the wonderful relations that i have made and for what i have been able to learn and to share and to experience. as a civil war reenactor it is true we live history, experience trials, the degradations in the lives of all who preceded us. yes, it is fun. it is fun to run around, loading -- load and fire, shooting at the enemy, knowing that you can go home. but also at the same time, there is something more. it is like a time portal before us. it is something unseen that defies explanation. to those of us who have experienced this, it calls us. it beckons us, even. to look a little deeper. it might sound strange or curious, but to those of us wh