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      6 months ago
      1. History is important, even history we disagree with. Especially history that some current ideologue wants to hide
      2. These people being killed left suffering for their family and friends, a missing generation was a huge problem for their community
      3. Most soldiers were likely fighting for their friends and communities. Maybe I’m overstepping for things I’ve never experienced, but I would be willing to bet that very few individual soldiers chose to be there to support slavery, or had anywhere near that amount of abstraction in their motivations