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I am a photographer, and I understand why they weren't smiling in the pictures. But those are also the faces of men who saw and endured sacrifices for their nascent nation, at a time when the national future was by no means certain. They were engaged in taking on the world's preeminent superpower at the time...........and beat that superpower......in defense of some very sacred principles. Again, forgetting politicians from either party today, and forgetting the parties themselves, who among us can imagine that these men fought a revolutionary war in order to preserve the culture we live in today, in ALL of its aspects?

I certainly cannot.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2hReJSKyF

These are photographs of actual Revolutionary War veterans. . . .a dour lot. One gets the impression that life today is not what they fought for. Forget democrats versus republicans, there has always been strife between whatever major parties existed at any given time. What I see in these photos are the faces of men who would not understand or approve of what their county has become.

Please, for the sake of Charles Cotton and the moderators, just enjoy the photographs and leave out the vitriol. Just mourn and be sad.