Southland and Vicksburg

Mike and I just got in tonight from driving 1500 miles in the past three days, going to Southland Christian Camp in Louisiana to pick up five of our youth group teenagers who stayed there for LIGHT camp (it's an acronym but I can't remember what it stands for)--a leadership camp where they were intensively mentored the first week and served as assistant counselors the second. We went out in two days, meeting my folks in Birmingham for lunch at Cracker Barrel, stopping overnight at Vicksburg and touring the battlefield the next day, then driving on to the camp. This morning we left Southland at 10:20 AM EDT; we pulled into Oakwood at 10:21 PM EDT. Mike got us back quickly and safely. We had five teens with us, including our daughter, who did NOT want to come home.

Everyone should tour Civil War battlefields. They are a reminder of the inhumanity of men to other men, the horrors of war, and the reality of our national conflicts. Mike saw a Vicksburg battlefield T-shirt in the information headquarters that he really liked. He said he would have bought it if the south had won that battle.