Nothing so befits America as beginning again.
At its best, it is a place to start afresh, a place to reinvent yourself. This is especially so when you have no choice. So, it s hard to imagine what Atlanta might have been like had Sherman and the Union Army not burned it to the ground during the Civil War. There s a great story about the classic movie Gone with the Wind . There s a scene following the burning of Atlanta when the camera lifts and pans and shows wounded and dying confederate soldiers across the earth for as far as the eye can see.