“Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” - Anonymous

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

24 April

The Confederacy’s gamble to invade the North during the Civil War for a second [and, as chance would have it, final] time was costly indeed; during the three days of the grisly Battle of Gettysburg 17 of the Confederacy’s 52 generals had become casualties. Such battle-tested leadership could never be replaced. The fabled Army of Northern Virginia had suffered a loss of leadership which represented a near mortal wound.