Went to see Ken Burns speak tonight at the Wortham Center. We had a lovely dinner at Birraporetti's (alittle on the pricy side for food that was just ok. The service was good and very friendly). It was still a nice evening to walk around downtown, have dinner with just my husband and then go to hear Ken Burns speak.
The Huntsville Men's Choir opened the evening with some wonderful music which was capped off with a tear jerking playing of Taps on the trumpet. Everything Mr. Burns had to say was exactly what I think we as Americans need to hear today. The two things that resonated with me the most were:
He mentioned something Arthur Schlesinger Jr. once said. He said, "There's too much pluribus and not enough unum." And he believes that embedded in the endlessly fascinating stories of the Second World War is a sense of what unum means. He also quoted Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address as the most perfect sentence ever:
"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
Make sure you catch The War the next time it airs on PBS.
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