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that because I work here. Get started today at banta.com. Memorial Day honors the armed forces

and people who were killed. Let's go over what has happened to this country.

So in 1775, the Revolutionary War started. Less than eight years. Most people don't know that.

George Washington was the big hero. About 70,000 patriots died in that war, mostly from disease, not from bullets. About 25,000 British regulars

were killed. That was a big number. King George lost a big number there. And people who were

wounded back then usually died from their wounds because they didn't have medical procedures, as they

do now. Now, I wrote a book called

Killing England. If you want to know about the Revolutionary War, that's the book you read.

Then the next huge war, we had the War of 1812, didn't really matter, Mexican War, it was

small things. But the Civil War, that was the worst thing that ever happened to this country by

far.

Start on April 12, 1861, when the South said FU to the federal government and shooting began.

It ended four years later.

In the interim, about a million Americans lost their lives, more than a million. 620,000 is the estimate on a battlefield, but if you were wounded again in the Civil War, you usually die, maybe not right

away. But I estimate more than a million Americans are killed, and that includes 200,000 Confederate soldiers, about

280,000 Union soldiers died in direct combat, okay? So that was the worst thing by

far as ever ever happened. Then you had the Indian Wars that lasted from 1609 to 1890 my God all

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