Today I am offering to you an interesting post, diverging a bit from posting about strictly Buddhist topics. I ran across these images while going through my photos for my upcoming book Contemplating Illness. These are photos that I took when I visited the US National POW Museum in Andersonville, GA back in 2004. Andersonville is in a very remote corner of the state of Georgia and I visited there on the return trip to Havana, Florida after the death of my father. It was on one of the many trips I made to my parents home in Havana to settle the estate and sell the house.
It was in Andersonville that a Confederate States established a prison for Union solders captured. At the Andersonville prisoner of war camp thousands of union soldiers died while in this prison camp. The place was less prison and more empty field with wooden fencing and also death camp. Today all that is left is some wooden fencing and recreations of the crude lean-tos constructed by Union soldiers to provide some limited shelter during the hot summers and cold winters.
