Peter F. Snyder is a Christian, a husband, a father and grandfather, an artist, architect, retired hang glider pilot but still a small boat sailor, a student of family history and a "veteran" Civil War reenactor. He is a loner but a family man. He taught fourth grade boys Sunday school for 34 years. He has lived in Maryland, New Jersey, Texas, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and Georgia. He discovered family history of members who fought for the North and for the South back in the 1860s, which galvanized his curiosity over that war. His studies of that conflict have led him to consider America today, and led to concerns of similarities from that time to this.