Maybe Gettysburg Park in PA needs to hear from some DUers. They say they've received

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66. Battlefields-- especially Gettysburg-- are absolutely appropriate places for the monuments...

Gettysburg has numerous unit monuments that list the names of the deceased. For example, there is an 11th Mississippi Infantry monument, in which my great-great-grandfather reluctantly fought as a conscript. Being poor, he was drafted early (no 20-slave exemptions for him). Hospitalized with dysentery in 1862, he regained enough strength to desert from Lee's army (not unlike the protagonist in the book/film "Cold Mountain&quot , but was caught at home and given a choice: Go back to the front, or you'll be shot right where you stand. So back he went, where he was later captured by Union troops at Petersburg, and then imprisoned at City Point, Virginia. (He had retained the rank of private throughout the war.) Then the poor guy caught smallpox, which nearly killed him. When he finally made it home, he had enough strength left to move his family to West Texas, an utterly good-forsaken place in 1865.

I'm glad he survived all his struggles, as his offspring that forms the ancestral link was born AFTER the war. If he'd died of wounds or infection, I wouldn't exist.