Virginia. Explore anere to aspect of the civil war that is very much in the news. It has been in the news for several years. Some of you have found these rancorous debates about civil justonuments traveling and wish the debates will go away. But you know it wont just go away. The constructive thing to do is to accept the debates is evidence that the subject of our institution, the American Civil War museum, is relevant today. Many of you are regulars to the events, history buffs to look learn you love to study history. I would like to extend a welcome to those of you who are new, the preservationists, in the audience. Museum of the the American Civil War center, we have always audit was our response thought it was our responsibility to engage constructively with issues arising from the civil war, whether that subject be monuments, the confederate battle flag or the discussion of slavery as the cause of the war. Today is to promote a constructive and civil consideration of civil war mon