The tour 2 - part 2 revised

link to The tour - part 1 The high school of the young lady mentioned above is named after the the nearby Civil War battlefield. The link says

... over 5,350 soldiers were killed in the battle fought here from June 19, 1864 through July 2, 1864.

If I take the road from my house, past her high school, and go southwest, I come to Marietta.

There are three cemeteries next to downtown. The one to the east is a National Cemetery.

Here rest the remains of 10,312 Officers and Soldiers who died in defense of the Union 1861-1865.

One of the two to the south is the Marietta Confederate Cemetery

Established in 1863, this was originally the resting place for 20 Confederate soldiers killed in a train wreck north of town. Located in Land Lot 1290, District 16, the address is 381 Powder Springs Street. After the Civil War more than 3,000 Confederate soldiers who died elsewhere were recovered and reburied there.

In the next instalment, we will go a few miles to another place of historic violence.

more on signs

The original post

The need for memory of violent loss continues; there is something within us that prevents us from just moving on.

How Diana’s funeral marked a return to “Catholic” England

memory

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Einstein

There is a cartoon I remember, one of those simple cartoons of decades ago. A character finds "a loose thread" on another character and begins to pull it. First is unravels the other characters clothes. Then the body starts unraveling in one continuous thread. In the end, there is nothing but a thread -- the character is no longer there.

I like to think of the last end of the thread as the "starting point" of the character. Rather than a physical point, I think each person has a point which might be called the intellectual center. If we trace all ideas, all thoughts back logically, we come to that point.

For me that point is the oneness of God.

Since I was educated as a scientist, and since the first educators were a priest and a nun, I have a seamless understanding of creation. There is no boundary between science and faith.

As a result I integrate my method of science with that of pursuing faith. Hence the idea of using a tour in space and welding it to one in time.

Let us start the journey in the next entry.

more rest

Tonight I went to St Peter Chanel parish for the memorial Mass.

I feel empty tonight. A good homily, yet ...

I have been unable to continue the journey. But when I do, we will journey not in space but time, with a tip of the hat to Albert Einstein.

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The tour - part 5

Atlanta is a city of history - of violence.

The old city was burned by General Sherman during the civil war.

In 1906 there was a mass civil disturbance referred to as the Atlanta Race Riot. It is estimated that there were between twenty-five to forty African American deaths. It was confirmed that there were only two white deaths.

Altanta is the birthplace and now the resting place of Martin Luther King, Jr, a man whose lived ended in a crescendo of violence.

Finally, in 1996, at Centennial Olympic Park, a bomb exploded, killing a woman.

By no means are these the only incidents of violence in Atlanta's or N.GA's history.

Let us rest again and consider where we have been.