[Tammy8]

I think that I have had family fight all battles on this soil since the Pilgrims

Most would think that everyone fought in all the battles/wars just because the population was much smaller. I did a lot of family genealogy and found out some families really didn't fight as a rule. My dad's family fought in numbers in every generation- but there was a branch in my mother's family that did not have any members in the military at any time that I could find. In fact that family seemed to migrate to other areas when there were issues. Some likely didn't fight for religious reasons but I didn't find that. My husband's family fought in every skirmish they could find including feuds. I found that funny. Just as today some families supply the troops and many don't.

[mountainlion]

I have found around 25 people in my tree that served in the American Revolution. Half a dozen served in the war of 1812 and the Mexican War. One of my great grandparents was shot in the shoulder and bayonet ted in the let in the battle of Trenton. He had said that he know George Washington and some generals. I think some fought to get land and became farmers. I have found little in the civil war until WWII. One in WWII helped drive out the Japanese in Alaska. The search of Ancestors is quite interesting.