sgt. maj. dailey: please join me and stand for military honors. playing] [indiscernible] [drumroll] >> you may be seated. at this time, i would like to invite reverend buckner to the podium to give a an addiction. -- a benediction. let us pray.ner: remember, oh lord, we beseech the. the souls of them that have kept the faith, those who we remember and those we were member not. and grant them rest in the land of the living and the joy of paradise where all pain and grief have fled away, for the light of thy countenance shine is forever, and guide in peace the end of our lives oh lord, when that will, and as that will , that we may enter the gate and dwell in that house where there shall be no darkness nor dazzling, but one equal light, no noise nor silence, but one equal music. no fears, no hoax, but one equal possession. no end nor beginning, but one equal eternity in the habitations of thy majesty and glory, world without end. and unto god's gracious mercy and protection, we commit ourselves and those near and dear to us. the lord bless us and ke

sgt. maj. dailey: please join me and stand for military honors. playing] [indiscernible] [drumroll] >> you may be seated. at this time, i would like to invite reverend buckner to the podium to give a an addiction. -- a benediction. let us pray.ner: remember, oh lord, we beseech the. the souls of them that have kept the faith, those who we remember and those we were member not. and grant them rest in the land of the living and the joy of paradise where all pain and grief have fled away, for the light of thy countenance shine is forever, and guide in peace the end of our lives oh lord, when that will, and as that will , that we may enter the gate and dwell in that house where there shall be no darkness nor dazzling, but one equal light, no noise nor silence, but one equal music. no fears, no hoax, but one equal possession. no end nor beginning, but one equal eternity in the habitations of thy majesty and glory, world without end. and unto god's gracious mercy and protection, we commit ourselves and those near and dear to us. the lord bless us and ke

sgt. maj. dailey: professor gordon: they were dying from scurvy and severe diarrhea.se were terrible waste of guys -- ways to die. men with they would rather die in battle, they would rather die shot and killed in the heat of combat and to die this slow suffering that seem to so dehumanizing. it's just a terrible way to die. majority of those 15,000 died, from disease and malnutrition. host: we are seeing pictures of the gravesites there. recently there was another type of memorial service there and which was eliminated, to give you a sense of what's happening, you attended that. what was it like to attend that ceremony and see those illuminations. ? professor gordon: it was very powerful. i was with eric leonard and another historian, and we drove around. we were really taken aback by lights forseeing the the 13,000. it really brought home a sense of just how many men were here. is a portion of the 13,000 mother were 40,000 here that endured andersonville. so a broader visual sense of the numbers. it's hard to contemplate that many deaths, i think. it's true for the