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It was an emotional day yesterday, filled with ceremonies at Arlington Cemetery, the Pentagon and Ground Zero. I did not attempt to get to either the five-sided Adult Care facility, nor to the cemetery as I do most anniversaries of that awful day.<\/p>\n
Instead, there was a birthday and wine-tasting out at the Bull Run Winery on the site of the battlefield at First Manassas. It was a delightful time, and I had a chance to interact with Macho, a dark gelding who is ridden in the guise of a war pony form the 4th Virginia Cavalry, unless his services are needed to bolster the ranks of the Blue Jackets to make the re-enactments more realistic. The 4th Virginia will be doing their next outing in October at the site of the Cedar Creek fight in the Shenandoah Valley.<\/p>\n
Then back to Arlington for the formal and festive final closing of the pool for the season, and the usual high-kinks and merriment. And the regret that the summer fled so fast and we are on to the next big thing.<\/p>\n
In the process of cleaning out the accumulated messages that piled up while I was gone for grape or hurling myself into the blue water, I saw that my cousin has been posting a number of documents about our common ancestors. In the process of trying to locate copies of the Civil War service records I had acquired fro the National Archives, I ran across an account of a visit to the battlefield at Raymond, Mississippi, where at least one of them fought, and possibly both.<\/p>\n