Often I have said that I wish we had the ability to touch an old object and be able to see what all it as saw throughout its lifetime.
This summer I had the opportunity to tour a historical landscape where a lot of death occurred due to warring.
I prayed asking for some mental picture as to some of the things that happened there so I could better understand it all.
I touched the rocks and boulders on the historical landscape that was still there centuries ago.
I saw some mental pictures and quick flashes of some of the horrid heart wrenching things that happened there due to the warring.
I saw how after the battle the living tried to gather up the badly decaying dead humans. When someone grabbed the hands of a dead solder and began pulling their body off the battlefiel their top off broke off from their lower half due to advanced decay.
A young soldier boy was hiding between 2 boulders that had another bolder over top of it as if it were a roof. He saw his friends being slaughtered and had blood on him from a friend who died. He shook with fear and looked about worried with wide eyes. One of the soldiers on the enemy's side approached the boy's hiding spot and saw his fear and youthfulness of about ages 12-14 maybe. The "enemy" had compassion on the boy and told him to stay put and quiet and to act dead for his own protection.
The place emitted a since of dread, sadness and even a still quietness that felt heavy to people or at least some people as I could see from their faces.
Those are the ones that stick with me in my memory. I cant remember the other ones right now.
War ruins lives and just plain sucks!
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