While we're all on the topic of documentaries I started watching Ken Burns' The Civil War documentary which is essentially 11 hours of describing the Civil War and all of the crazy cool things that happened during its progression. While I've only seen 3 of 11 parts so far, i can already tell that it's gonna be a really interesting movie. Burns has peaceful piano music playing in the background which really intensifies when the audio turns to explosions to simulate cannon fire from battle. The most amazing part has been the photographs amassed by Burns that are seen in the film. So many pictures and so much evidence exists of a war that most of us think of as too ancient for memory. The civil war is also different from all other wars fought in American history because it is the war with ourselves. It is much easier to go into combat with a enemy than a friend. New accepted studies are putting the Civil War American death toll at 750,000 the highest of any war. The war also ended up representing more than just the stars and stripes versus the stars and bars, it was a war about freeing the slaves, it was a war about the phrase "all men are created equal" it was about the motto of this country e pluribus unum, or from many, one.