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Originally Posted by propbeanie
Kinda like the Union and Confederate armies playing "Home, Sweet Home" across the river to each other... and then shooting each others eye sockets empty the next day with 50 calibre rifles from 25 yards away... From Wikipedia on the Battle of Stones River
"The armies bivouacked only 700 yards (640 m) from each other, and their bands started a musical battle that became a non-lethal preview of the next day's events. Northern musicians played "Yankee Doodle" and "Hail, Columbia" and were answered by "Dixie" and "The Bonnie Blue Flag." Finally, one band started playing "Home! Sweet Home!" and the others on both sides joined in. Thousands of Northern and Southern soldiers sang the sentimental song together across the lines." |
YUP! That pretty much exactly captures the paradoxical but fascinating nature of it!
