Battle-scarred skull found at Culloden

[James Hood]

The horror which was Culloden is depicted in haunting nano-view by that skull. Thank you for the link.

Lifelong experience and study of history leaves in this soul, NO doubt, NO battle has ANY romance associated with its beyond-horrific actuality.

Whether one treads the hallowed ground of Gettysburg; grips the periscope handles of USS Cobia in its museum-setting; touches The Wall and reads the names; views the cliffs of Dover, imagining Luftwaffe bombers coming to England and young men scrambling into cockpits of Hurricanes and Spitfires to stop them; touches a sword used by a Scots Grey at Waterloo; shudders at a photo of Tommies in a WW I trench; sees an Afghanistan vet with an artificial limb; steps on the stones of Fort St. Elmo, "feeling" with the Knights of St. John, that desperate summer of 1565...

...or still lives with their own personal memories of "those times"...

...there is no "romance," there.

Recommended reading: The Face Of Battle, John Keegan
The Universal Soldier, Windrow, Wilkinson and Embleton

Eternal honour, prayers and thanks to all who served in the cause of freedom.