Good Bye Old House

[L Verge]

Rick - we think alike. That was my first reaction on Monday when I first saw the ruins. At least I won't have to start from scratch to build a whole new life. I think I could accept its demise more if it had come at the hands of an electrical failure or lightning strike. It's the fact of knowing that the criminal element destroyed it that makes me so angry. I bet the people of the Valley and Georgia and other areas felt the same way 149 years ago. I understand that such destruction may have been necessary for the winning of the war, but I'm not sure that the defeated ones felt anything except despair and then loathing.