Fallen Flowers - Battle of Gettysburg

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The Gettysburg Foundation and Gettysburg National Military Park are commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg and the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery with special events and programs
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the song is "Fallen Flowers" from Steve McDonald's album: Stone of Destiny. Steve McDonald sings about a young man dying on a battlefield, and his mother is there with him, after the disastrous Battle of Halidon HIll (July 19, 1333) during the Second War for Scottish Independence. However, I have set the song to photographs of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where a battle was fought 530 years later (July 1-3, 1863). Gettysburg is the site of a major turning point battle in the American Civil War, and the battle with the largest number of casualties of that War. President Abraham Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg address there in November of that same year.

One of my great-great grandfathers had two older brothers, young men who died during the conflict: one was killed in the Battle of Gettysburg, and the other contracted typhoid fever there and died in his father's arms shortly thereafter.

How many mothers and fathers are mourning the loss of their son or daughter today. "I'd live a thousand years of pain, just to hold you once again."