Wars can bring out so many emotions. National pride, sadness, pain, suffering, happiness, loneliness, fright, strength; hopefulness and hopelessness. Most people can't find a way to express themselves in such dark times; but the people that wrote it all down, the people that set down the memories and the emotions and the pain into words for people to read hundreds of years later helped preserve history in it's purest form; records from firsthand experience. Some people who expressed emotion through their writings or opinions are Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, and Robert E. Lee.
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