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Political Factoid
"The nation's long and bloody Civil War
created much of [the] culture [that
existed in America for decades].*
"Men who were able to stand within range
of each other and blast away with powerful
guns and cannons became hardened to
human emotions.
"It wasn't like other wars where a soldier
was killing men who didn't look or talk like him.
"No, these men spoke (roughly) the same
language and looked the same and acted,
bled and suffered the same on both sides.
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"Human life is cheapened by such conflict
and the effects didn't end when General Grant
and Robert E. Lee shook hands."
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And which persists to some extent in many parts of the nation,
even today.
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