Sandra Medina, an Attorney in California, was greatly inspired by a visit to the Resaca Battlefield in 1997. She wrote the following poem about her experience with this pristine landscape.

Heros asleep in the graves at Resaca
I think you did not plan it so
When first you came to this sweet Georgia wood.

You were only men then, or boys,
And brave beyond what could have been expected.
Full of dreams, with lives to live.

It was not to be.

Is it enough, not to be forgotten?
Is it enough to lie beside your comrades,
True believers with you in a sacred cause?

It has to be.

There is nothing else in this quiet space but sleep
And honor that lasts forever.

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Read Letters written by participants in the battle here.