title: Why Weep and Wait? A Civil War Tale
author: Cathwren Hermon
description: Traveling from her home sixty miles from Gettysburg, Cathwren Hermon has often walked the battlefields and felt the living presence of those who gave their last full measure of devotion there.
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  A MOB HUNGRY FOR BLOOD.
  
  The sun stood at midmorning and already Martok could see that the stands
  around the pit were overflowing—twenty, maybe thirty thousand people. Pushing
  and shoving against the barriers, they roared when the prisoners appeared.
  
  They expect us to be slaughtered like animals, but we will show them how true
  warriors die.Martok tried to study individual faces, tried to read what he saw
  there, but all he could see was teeth bared with anger, eyes filled with
  hatred.
  
  Such rage!Martok wondered. _But at what, truly? At the losses we endured
  during the Dominion_ _War? At the alliance with the Federation and the
  Romulans? At the erosion of our power?_ He wondered at his own thoughts at
  such a time, but he could not stop his mind from tracing the route it was now
  following. He saw that everything that had happened over the past several
  days, the past months and years, had brought him to this moment and to the
  verge of this insight. _Could this