re: 142 years ago today

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I’ve been to Little Bighorn. Pretty out there.

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It's pretty, but there is also something eerie about that place. I went last summer and it wasn't very crowded at all. I remember having parts of the battlefield to myself basically, and just standing still with no sound other than the wind whispering through the tall grass. Do you know how people describe how their vision can narrow? I felt that, but with my hearing, the ONLY thing I could hear standing on the ridgeline was that grass just swishing all around me. It makes you wonder, was this same sound what Custer and his men heard as the life drained out of them on top of that hill? I honestly don't know how to describe it because I've never experienced anything like it, not even at Gettysburg. There was a palpable energy to the place. It felt...restless. Just thinking about it now makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Here are some pics from that day: