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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KikoBlueEyes, post: 2125563, member: 8363&quot;]While I find the uniforms and what they stand for are repugnant, I also think that we are the product of our time and place in history.&nbsp; Looking at historical events from our modern sensibilities, I think we tend to forget that people had very different belief systems in other times.&nbsp; This was brought home to me while I was at Gettysburg, which is an American Civil War battlefield.&nbsp; I was standing at the Angle&nbsp; looking across the field where Pickett&#039;s charge happened.&nbsp; I was shocked when I saw that it was a huge open plain without any cover and that soldiers with almost no ammunition were sent to run in lines up towards a line of Union artillery.&nbsp; Frankly I was astonished that any human would run forward into almost certain death and that there were leaders that would send them there.&nbsp; I asked about this at the interpretive center and they said people thought differently then.&nbsp; So I look at these photos and I think of young men who believed in a country and its leaders.&nbsp; Just like those young confederate soldiers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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