Slaves digging ditches or whatever for their rebel masters had no choice but to do what their owners forced them to do. We might as well "honor" slaves for picking cotton.
What's your other FR handle?
Grand Old Paritisan hawking more books on FR.
Were you banned before?
Or just try to come back with another handle to fool everyone
Any way you slice it, they were nevertheless in harm's way. You make whatever they did sound ignoble because they were following orders. Isn't that exactly what soldiers do?
black served in the Luisiana militia.
Do you think a draftee had any choice but to do as he were told? Does that make him any less a soldier?
Get a real life.