Rifleman
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 11:47 AM

Let's not forget that today marks the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg and that July 4 is also the day when Vicksburg surrendered to Grant. "And let me speak to the yet unknowing world / How these things came about. / So shall you hear / Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, / Of accidental judgements [sic], casual slaughters, / Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, / And, in this upshot, purposes mistook/ Fall'n on the inventors' heads. -- Hamlet, V:ii