Preserving Our Memorial Day Stories: From Gettysburg to Goober Peas

Preserving Our Memorial Day Stories: From Gettysburg to Goober Peas
A girl sits in the grass among the headstones of those killed during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., during Memorial Day on May 31, 2021. Samuel Corum/Getty Images
Susan D. Harris
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I’d always wanted to visit Gettysburg Battlefield and look across the peaceful pastoral landscape that once echoed with the thunder of war. I wanted to walk Seminary Ridge, peer around the rocks at Devil’s Den, and stand on Little Round Top. I wanted to stand where Abraham Lincoln stood when he gave the Gettysburg Address that my dear mother could recite until the day she died. I wanted to see how far north that famous Virginian, Gen. Lee, had come before his army withdrew to the Potomac.
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