Do you think that the veterans of the Civil War, or World War II, had any different reactions or reflections after their wars? World War II veterans won their war. But, I have talked to many of those veterans and their reflections are much the same. They saw the same horrors and wonder, why did I survive when my buddys didn't? And even my dad, whose story I have already related, who stayed at home, felt guilty because he was exempted and didn't go.

Robert E. Lee said it the best, when he said, "It is good that War is so terrible, lest we grow to love it too much".

I know that Sherman said "War is Hell". But, he was looking at the burning southland and was talking about justifing what he could inflict upon the southern people to make their lives a living Hell. I don't believe that he was lamenting the horribleness of War as so many interpret that quote, or he would have stopped the unnecessary destruction that his men were doing.