As long as justice and injustice have
not terminated their ever-renewing
fight for ascendancy in the affairs of
mankind, human beings must be
willing, when need is, to do battle
for the one against the other.
War is an ugly thing, but not the
ugliest of things: the decayed and
degraded state of moral and patriotic
feeling which thinks that nothing is
worth a war, is much worse. When a
people are used as mere human
instruments for firing cannon or
thrusting bayonets,
A man who has
nothing which he is willing to fight
for, nothing which he cares more
about than he does about his
personal safety, is a miserable
creature who has no chance of being
free, unless made and kept so by the
exertions of better men than himself.
LITTLE BIGHORN BATTLEFEILD MONUMENT
Taken in the early 1880's, just a few years after the battle in 1876, stakes mark the positions where Custer's troopers died, and were buried.
In 1890, marble headstones (249 of them) replaced the stakes.