ever watch Gone with the Wind, at the the war is lost, while Scarlett is stuck married to Fank Kennedy, those snotty old ladies come by and demand that she help them to " beautify the graves of our glorious dead" on the last weekend of May, the first really steamy one of the season that year...and oh, how she hates all this mourning of the Lost Cause and crying over boys lost in battle, and the waste of war...Read the book...it a great antiwar book!