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This is what killed over 4,000 Soldiers in the Civil War...

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Because, as Nelson Mandela once said,  “There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.”<br />
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By the late summer of 1864, a century and a half ago, more than  100,000 African  American soldiers were serving in the U.S. Civil War, providing a much-needed boost to Abraham #Lincoln’s struggling Union forces.<br />
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These proud soldiers, many of whom were former slaves, “had been to the armory of God,” said one black sergeant, “and had received weapons of the heart, that made them daring and dangerous foes.”<br />
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The Union’s newest enlistees fought courageously, but neither God nor their new employer had equipped them with the armor to fight an even more daunting enemy than the Confederacy: Disease.<br />
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According to The  Library of Congress, an astonishing 29,000 of those 100,000 black soldiers died from disease during the Civil War. Or, nine  times the number that would perish fighting. Preventable diseases like:<br />
Pneumonia, malaria, dysentery, small pox and typhoid fever were the primary culprits, and devastated many black units: One black infantry regiment lost 524 soldiers to disease in a single year, half of its overall numbers. As one lieutenant stationed in Louisiana wrote: “The mortality in our Regt. beats anything that I ever saw. They frequently drop dead in the streets.”<br />
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The Civil War was the greatest biological crisis of the 19thcentury. Unsanitary camps, unburied bodies and inadequate medical care contributed to the deaths of over  400,000 soldiersfrom disease. According to historian Glenn W.  LaFantasie, author ofGettysburg Requiem(2006), “[d]isease and primitive medical knowledge were the Civil War soldier’s worst enemies. For every soldier killed in battle, two died of disease.”<br />
A white doctor observed, ‘[V]ery few surgeons will do precisely for blacks as they would for whites.’<br />
The camp conditions confronting the average soldier were appalling.<br />
 For black soldiers, it was even worse. Those who became ill “died at a rate two and a half times higher than their white counterparts,” according to The  Library of Congress.<br />
Discrimination led not only to unequal pay and poorly-provisioned regiments, but grossly deficient medical care. Many white medical officers were unwilling to treat black units, one white doctor observingthat “[v]ery few surgeons will do precisely for blacks as they would for whites.” And there were only three black physiciansserving the Union Army’s 166 black  regiments.<br />
Emancipation and the long war caused severe dislocation in black communities, disrupting kin networks, and leaving millions without adequate shelter, food or access to medical care. And things would only get worse: Sickness and disease threatened the lives of 3.5  million freed slavesafter the war ended.<br />
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Prior to the Civil War, the great orator, journalist and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, had argued, “let the black man get upon his person the brass letters, U.S.; let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder, and bullets in his pocket, and there is no power on earth which can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.”<br />
By the time the 14th Amendment finally granted citizenship to freed slaves in 1868, the combination of disease, war, discrimination and unthinkable hardship had taken a massive toll on black soldiers and communities, but there was, as Douglass had predicted, no question that they had not just earned citizenship but also deserved the eternal respect and admiration of a nation.<br />
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This is what killed over 4,000 Soldiers in the Civil War...

Because, as Nelson Mandela once said, “There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.” By the late summer of 1864, a century and a half ago, more than 100,000 African American soldiers were serving in…

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19 Oct 2014

Here is what the CEO of Facebook has to say about Samsung.

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Mark Zuckerberg<br />
"I had the opportunity to bring #Facebook's management team to visit Samsung in Korea to learn about their culture and how they build the devices that hundreds of millions of people use to connect.<br />
A highlight was seeing the Hwaseong campus where Samsung produces 40% of the world's memory chips. The precision of their process is inspiring. We had to wear clean suits so small dust particles didn't interfere with their machines.<br />
Thank you to the Samsung team for hosting us. We look forward to working together to connect the world."<br />
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Here is what the CEO of Facebook has to say about Samsung.

Mark Zuckerberg "I had the opportunity to bring #Facebook's management team to visit Samsung in Korea to learn about their culture and how they build the devices that hundreds of millions of people u…

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19 Oct 2014

Seems surprising, secret space plane lands at US air force base after unknown two-year Mission

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Resembling a small space shuttle, the X-37B landed in southern #California after a 674 days in orbit on a secret mission.<br />
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A top-secret space plane landed Friday at an air force base on the southern California Coast.<br />
The plane spent nearly two years circling Earth on a classified mission. Known as the X-37B, it resembles a mini space shuttle.<br />
It safely touched down at 9.24am Friday, officials at Vandenberg Air Force Base said.<br />
Just what the plane was doing during its 674 days in orbit has been the subject of sometimes spectacular speculation.<br />
Several experts have theorized it carried a payload of spy gear in its cargo bay. Other theories sound straight out of a James Bond film, including that the spacecraft would be able to capture the satellites of other nations or shadow China’s space lab.<br />
In a written release announcing the return of the craft, the air force only said it had been conducting “on-orbit experiments”.<br />
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(The US air force’s first unmanned re-entry spacecraft landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.Photograph: US AIR FORCE/Reuters)<br />
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The X-37B program has been an orphan of sorts, bouncing since its inception in 1999 between several federal agencies, Nasa among them. It now resides under the air force’s rapid capabilities office.<br />
The plane that landed Friday is one of two built by Boeing. This is the program’s third mission, and began in December 2012.<br />
The plane stands 9.5ft tall and is just over 29ft long, with a wingspan under 15ft. It weighs 11,000lbs and has solar panels that unfurl to charge its batteries once in orbit.<br />
The air force said it plans to launch the fourth X-37B mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida, next year.</div>

Seems surprising, secret space plane lands at US air force base after unknown two-year Mission

Resembling a small space shuttle, the X-37B landed in southern #California after a 674 days in orbit on a secret mission. A top-secret space plane landed Friday at an air force base on the southern C…

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19 Oct 2014