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Courthouse civil park. And Liz Ben Varon talks about the ending of the appomattox civil war. This is about 50 minutes. Thank you. Thank you very much. It is a pleasure and honor to be here and share the stage with these wonderful scholars. Im grateful to Patrick Schroeder to having included me. So you have the surrender scene and i would like to turn to the surrender aftermath and the political debates spawned by appomattox and ill argue that lee and grant had distinct visions of what an honorable possess would look like and peace would look like and the two of the myths of the gentlemens meeting of the minds and they had fundamental visions of what an honorable peace would look like and why the war turned out the way it did. But i will try to take us beyond lee and grant as the appomattox drama unfolded the countrymen and women would crowd the scene and vest the surrender ....
Lee and grant had distinct visions of what an honorable possess would look like and peace would look like and the two of the myths of the gentlemens meeting of the minds and they had fundamental visions of what an honorable peace would look like and why the war turned out the way it did. But i will try to take us beyond lee and grant as the appomattox drama unfolded the countrymen and women would crowd the scene and vest the surrender with their oesh as pir own aspirations and agendas and dreams and the dream in the eyes of africanamericans and soldiers and former slaves and lees surrender was a freedom day, the day that the moment the moment that the promise of emancipation was finally fulfilled. Lee vision of an honorable peace emphasized confederate precisiveness and the vindication, africanamerican would associate it with liberation. So ill talk about the three visions of the peace. And lets start first with the lee and the confederates. Lee and the men saw that even as the surrend ....
I brought some of our brochures. I had no idea how many people would be here. If you are planning to go to the park this afternoon, if you hold off taking one of these, they are in the back. We will get you some. Its on park row. My talk is referred to as black thursday, the battle for Sailors Creek. One of the Union Generals who was involved in the battle, he wrote in his book about the fighting 5 of the intelligent people of the united states, north or south ever heard of the battle of Sailors Creek. They dont know anything of its magnitude or importance. This is not strange. It was fought in virginia. This was three days before the surrender under general robert e lee. Events were happening so rapidly that no note was made of the battle. In the next few minutes, you will be part of that part of our nation. Just some poi ....
Millions of people are either shopping online or flock to go stores in search of those great buys. For some, the bargain hunting began right after thanksgiving dinner. Some Stores Opening thursday night and are still open this afternoon. Patricia sagba is live in bay shore, new york. How is the shopping going so far today . Reporter well, let me tell you, del, right now, i would say the foot traffic is pretty much the heaviest that its been all day. We were here at the wee hours of this morning, afternoon 5 00 a. M. And there were very few people out. You can probably attribute that to gray thursday, stealing a lot of black fridays thunder. Many stores were open at 8 00 oclock last night. Thats what really attracted the hardcore shoppers who really wanted to take advantage of those doorbuster deals. At sears, for example, there were about 500 people online waiting for those doors to open at 8 00 p. M. Last night. Of course, wages ....
Understand, what is the question . So let me answer. Its a very simple answer. First of all of course as you can understand i want us to reach an agreement but i think we have to reach out in a sensible realistic way. One of the problems is that the piece thinking and peace concept will not renew in 20 years. This is what i think we need fresh thinking. You will not trite to a 25yearold chevy. So i think its time to thank fresh and to describe it in just a sentence. When israelis open their hearts and decided to go to peace in 1993 the result was a waive of terror and buses exploding in central jerusalem. When israelis took a giant step forward and the Peace Agreement in 2000 the result was the worst suicide bombing terror offensive ever. When the israelis opened their hearts the third time and we withdrew from the gaza strip and the result was rockets coming in life in southern jerusalem must awful. It is understandable why midd ....