last week at my little bro’s house

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last week Popsicle and i went to Good Ol’ Floppy Top, TN to visit my leetle brather. it was a great trip! he was feeling good and we went out and played tourist and not once did we turn on the TV. awesome!

we visited Stones River National Battlefield, which is called “Hell’s Half Acre” because it was one of the bloodiest battles of the  Civil War. something like over 25,000 people died (both sides combined).

 it was a gorgeous day. i took some pictures.

first, i had to take a pic of the gas station so Laura can add it to her gas station with questionable names pics.

then we went to the Hazen Brigade grave monument. there are only a few graves here and they’re in this stone wall enclousure. really small. this monument is the oldest intact Civil War memorial in the nation.


yes. i too, thought the graves seemed really close together. we assume that maybe it’s more like a mass grave?


and maybe the grave markers are sort of separated into sections by rank?


every grave marker looks different, and two apparently are missing.


it feels just as disturbing as it looks.

 

then we went down the road a bit to Stones River National Cemetery. it’s huge!

here’s justin and popsicle checking out a cannon.

but they couldn’t do anything with it because some a-hole had welded all the cannon balls together.

can you see all those graves in the background?

 


hey, what are those turkeys doing?

if i remember right, all of the graves are union soldiers. since the battle was fought in the south most of the confederate soldiers were sent to their hometowns to be buried. and the ones that could not be identified are buried in a mass grave… somewhere close by. i wasn’t paying close attention. sorry. i’ll do better next time.

then we went to the battlefield (well, the part that’s left) but it’s kinda bland and really quiet. the cemetery was filled with birds and noise, but the battlefield was too quiet and no birds, just a couple of joggers. kinda weird, i thought. we did the tour through the visitor center and saw all the dioramas and such. the park ranger was glad to get to do her spiel.

then we went down the road about half a mile and saw a Buddist temple. if this seems out of place to you well, that’s because it is.

that place was far creepier than the battlefield. all of the gold was so shiny. there were two weird building and everything was surrounded but this dark red and gold fence. i cannot describe to you how crazy gold all the gold was.

after that we went to the park/wetland/museum house thing in the ghetto. but i’ll post those pictures tomorrow or over the weekend.

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