Winslow Homer’s painting The Veteran in a New Field is a moving reminder of the meaning of this day. Homer evokes the promise of the future for this lone Civil War veteran as well as a stark reminder—in the symbolism of his scythe’s precise movement and freshly cut stalks—of the sacrifice paid by his comrades on countle…
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