Ken Burns restoration of his Civil War documentary

[LincolnToddFan]

I will never forget when The Civil War was originally broadcast on PBS in Sept 1990. I casually tuned in for the first night just because there was really nothing else on that I was interested in watching.

But from the very first minutes I was simply mesmerized. The series became a sensation, literally overnight. People were discussing it by the water cooler at work. There were call-ins to talk radio. It made the cover of Newsweek.

I was transfixed and horrified at the same time, I couldn't look away, at the same time I was depressed, sickened at the carnage. It forever changed the rather romanticized views I had held about this war. In fact it changed the way I feel about war, period.