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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 1230492, member: 13650&quot;]You&#039;re probably right. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I think what makes this so interesting is not only did he leave his normal, safe life behind as a professor, but he did it without letting anyone know.&nbsp; At a time when they didn&#039;t have air conditioned tents, you couldn&#039;t e-mail or call back home to let anybody know how you&#039;re doing.&nbsp;&nbsp; You couldn&#039;t jump on a plane and be back home in a few hours.&nbsp;&nbsp; The fighting was aggressive, wide open and brutal.&nbsp;&nbsp; Going to the Civil war, there was an above average chance that you weren&#039;t going to make it home alive.&nbsp;&nbsp; This was somebody with strong convictions that acted on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Also the fact that despite surviving through disease and 20 battles, being wounded 6 times, he still lived to be 85!&nbsp; &nbsp; Think of the changes he saw over his life.&nbsp;&nbsp; I figure, if he would have survived a few more years, he would have signed up for WWI.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; He was a rare individual.&nbsp; Very inspirational and an excellent choice to be selected for that coin.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s neat to realize how the quote and the individual tied into the depiction on the reverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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