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Thank You
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Thank You for your service.
IIRC Major Ballou's letter was featured in Ken Burn's spectacular The Civil War Documentary. It was beautiful then, as it is now. This letter and Shelby Foote's account of General Nathan Bedford Forrest's astonishing physical strength I will never forget. 
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"Men Wanted: for Hazardous Journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.” -Sir Ernest Shackleton
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” –Greek proverb
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