My old boss, a Certified Investment Planner, not a flake or anything, said she couldn’t get out of her car at Gettysburg one day because “there were too many dead soldiers.” Sometimes the past is really present, like when the clouds are covering Lookout Mountain, just like it was described by the survivors of the “Battle in the Clouds.”
I was once at Cold Harbor on an overcast day and the fog hung about 6 feet off the ground like smoke. I was standing approximately where Grant would have watched 7,000 of his men die in 20 minutes. The hair on the back of my neck stood up.