September 17, 1862: "America's Bloodiest Day"

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2. can't remember if the line was original with Eisenhower or Colin Powell

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Said that, if government were run only by men who had led men into war, there would be far fewer wars. Just think how easy it was for Bush Sr and Jr to lead us into Mideast wars, and how easy it is for Trump to flirt with nuclear war.

These pictures give some idea of the horror of war before we sanitized it with long distance weapons like bombers, missles, drones, etc.
There was a fence angle at Antietam called the Bloody Corner. They said by the end of the battle men could run across the fence without stopping because of the bodies piled on the ground.