Re: America's Wars

[Donald McElfresh <a0019874@airmail.net>]

Yes, the Civil War bothers me, but we still fought. My family had eight
Yankees in the war, and my great grandfather was an Ohio artilleryman captured
at the Battle of Chickamauga. He spent 16 months as a p.o.w., the last
being Andersonville (which he escaped from once, but was recaptured). Some
of the family didn't come back. We're still Americans, however.

Don

Jwscpd8@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 05/30/2002 9:10:02 PM Mountain Daylight Time, a0019874@airmail.net writes:
 
 

Don't know why, but all the commentary about people refusing to fight
because they look like the enemy bothers me.

Then the Civil War would really bother you, while it was not foreign, but interior,  that war was brother against brother, son against father as well as cousins from both sides of the line.  Here, the enemy was us.

   John Sonley  Korea 1951