The Hill News

Every beginning is an ending, and if we understand them we can think for ourselves. Over time, history recalls only the beginnings and endings. So it is with joy and enthusiasm we should welcome the day-by-day series about the Civil War on the op-ed pages of The New York Times. It begins to tell us who we are and who we can never be; that our world did not start with Bob Dylan and end with Don Draper. That we are not Europeans, no matter how much we in the Northeast might strive to be, and we can never be that. That we are made of the earth of this earth and the bloodshed here. And without that blood we would not be who we are today and who we are going to be tomorrow.

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