Manassas Battlefield - Stephen Mason

So over last spring break I visited the Manassas battlefield to check on my old Eagle Scout project. While walking I happened to stumble across a bone in the middle of the field. Now I didn't know if it was human or animal but I remember when I found it feeling a great sense of place. What the bone ended up doing was putting the battlefield into perspective as a place where so many people died defending the rights that we hold so important today. Their sacrifices can even be seen in the landscape, as the people that fought and died there on that field have literally become part of the landscape themselves. While I considered taking the bone at first I decided against it because of the fact that he had truly become one with the wilderness by dyeing there and disturbing his rest at that location would have been disconnecting him from this place.