12/18/2011
We spent the night in a Days Inn in Chattanooga. The hotel was fine, but I accidentally ordered a room with just one double bed. With nowhere for Daniel to sleep we put him in the tiny bed with us and spent most of the night getting kicked in the face. Ah, memories!
We skipped the continental breakfast (just dry cereal without milk) and headed to Mass at St. Gerard’s in nearby Fort Oglethorpe – a small and simple, beautiful parish. Laura and I both admitted afterwards that we were both thinking, “Why are the readers putting on those silly Southern accents?”
Literally less than a minute down the street from the church is the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, which is most notable for being the nation’s first military park. The layout became the format for all the other Civil War battle sites. Laura, meet your Professor Moriarty!
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