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The guns have been silent for 162 years. But Antietam today thrives with hundreds of thousands of visitors from across the country. Recently, we’ve seen a big uptick in European visitors who say that they are just absolutely flummoxed that the U.S. witnessed such terrible infighting when the country’s founding fathers issued in their proclamation…

This Year Marks 162 Years Since Antietam And its 25 years that Deirdre and I have been leading the tour through very hallowed ground. We reflect quite a bit on the expression of visitors’ faces as they stand there in the fields, with the wind sometimes howling, leaving visitors to wonder if the howling is…