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Man craves the knowledge and the sympathy of the Eternal. During a lull between the charges at the second Battle of Cold Harbor, in June, 1864, the only battle that Grant said he regretted fighting, officers going through the Union ranks saw the men sitting on the grass under the trees or in the thickets sewing their names on the sleeves their coats. Why were they doing that? It was because they expected to die in the ensuing charge, and shrank from the oblivion of a nameless grave. They wanted someone in the hills of western Pennsylvania, Vermont, New York, or Wisconsin, to know who they were after their death in that battle. Yes, the human heart wants to know that there is an ear to hear or an eye to witness its sorrows, its conflicts, and its struggles
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