THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM

I always enjoy reading a blog called Willisms.com. Yesterday there was an article marking the anniversary of the Battle of Antietam. As a student of American history, and certainly of the civil war, I found the article very interesting. Of particular interest to me was the point that at the Battle of Antietam there were 2108 Union soldiers killed in just one day. The Confederates lost 1546 men. That is 3654 Americans killed in one day of fighting. We have lost 3782 brave soldiers in Iraq in four and one half years of fighting. Makes you wonder, have we lost the heart and the right to live in this great country. As the author says "If this war truly is as unsustainable as some would have us believe we are in a lot bigger trouble than anything the middle east portends."