I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse. ~ Ulysses S. Grant
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"I am tired and sick of war.
Its glory is all moonshine.
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the
wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
War is hell."
William Tecumseh Sherman
It's always the same: one woman's child killed by the child of another. That poor kid looks half starved, too.
I once read an article about the soldiers on both side of the Gettysburg battle. Many of them sewed their names and addresses into their clothing, so their body stood a chance of being returned to the family. One soldier had kept a journal during his time in the Army, and he had written on the page for July 1, 1863: "Today I died."
It is enough to make you weep.
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