That's how many Americans have died in Combat so we can enjoy this day off.
Try not to forget.
Try not to forget.
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I don't think that number accounts for Confederates dead.
According to @Grok, 1.2-1.3 Million Americans have died in all wars. Until World War 1, more died of disease than combat.
As a young airman (1986), I was always told, disease, dehydration, poor sanitation, parasites, etc., kill more soldiers than combat.
I'm sure some Yankees on here will dispute it but they should be. They were Americans too. Besides I'm confident Memorial day was started by Confederate ancestors/widows ? Something like that.
During the Vietnam war the number one health problem with deployed Marines was tooth decade. After the ware they started classified teeth and you had to be in a certain class to be deployable. My unit was deploying, and I needed a root canal on my back tooth. They were not going to let me deploy and transfer me to another unit. I said hell no pull my tooth. They did and I deployed. I have a missing tooth today.
The first Memorial Day was in Columbus, MS
Come on, let’s do it! Let’s turn this thing political! I can feel it
They died fighting a war against America…. Not sure I’d really count that.
Not they, we. If you doubt it, ask the Mississippi State KA’s. 123 Robert E Lee, 321 the South should have won!
I will accept the attitude the men who fought for the Union did. They fought them and beat them, but there was a tremendous amount of mutual respect. The Union troops outside Appomattox didn't shout loud "Huzzahs!" The Confederate troops were allowed to keep their firearms and paroled to go home (the rifles were needed for hunting game).
During the Spanish-American War of 1898, there was such an outpouring of patriotism from both North and South. Several old Confederate Generals were even commissioned into the US volunteer corps, including James Longstreet and "Fighting Joe" Wheeler, who was Colonel Teddy Roosevelt's commander when he charged San Juan Hill (during one skirmish where they were routing the Spanish, Wheeler supposedly yelled, "WE GOT THEM DAMN YANKEES ON THE RUN!!")
In the decades that followed there were many Union-Confederate reunions, the biggest was the 50 year Gettysburg reunion in 1913. According to one story, the veterans enacted a reunion of Pickett's charge. When the Confederate veterans started shouting the Rebel yell, the old Union Veterans walked down to them and hugged them, both sides crying.
I really don't know why you are using the "we" there; didn't realize you associated so strongly with the confederacy. But I don't think y'all seceded to fight the union. You seceded to secede and then then the existing government fought you. Had it not been for the whole chattel slavery thing, I think you would have had a good argument that it was immoral for the US gov't to use military to force states to stay in the union when they had strong majorities in favor of seceding. But that chattel slavery thing you guys were so fond of was a big enough atrocity that it pretty much destroyed any argument for moral legitimacy on your part.
Actually they were the Confederate States of America. As Thomas Jefferson said, if they can't get along as one nation, they can get along two as separate nations. The CSA soldiers also drew pensions from the USA.