Returning one last time to Master Sergeant Edmonds, it seems important to note that following the war, he went back to Tennessee and told nobody his story. The only reason we know it happened is because he wrote it down in a diary which his son acquired after his death, but not after everyone who could corroborate it passed away. Some stories that need to be told to posterity cannot be uttered in public. He probably knew that his wife and son would read it eventually. But if the only way he could write a diary was using Facebook or while being watched by the NSA then he would never have written it down at all. \ No newline at end of file