I am, even though she is young and blonde and I am neither.
And with that, I am going to peruse elsewhere.
P.S. This is why we lost more people in the Civil War than all the other wars since combined. We Americans are all killers at heart. Be afraid, Saddam. Be very afraid.
I won't disagree with you that Americans can fight very fiercely (which was your point), but I can't let this pass.
We suffered such huge casualties in the Civil War, compared to subsequent wars, because
(a) tactics lagged far behind technological improvements (e.g., men were still "massed" in the antiquated way, and moved too slowly, too close to artillery fire);
(b) wounded men had only the most primitive medical care (by WWI, medical technology had improved greatly);
(c) even more men died from combined effects of contagious diseases and malnutrition than from combat. Food poisoning was very common and continued to be so through the Spanish-American War, but less so after that.