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Sons, brothers, and husbands are taken from happy homes and from the concerns of business, leaving vacant places, never, perhaps, to be filled again, and hurried away to wage a fearful war.
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Sumner reflects on the personal sacrifices made by soldiers taken from their families to fight in the war.
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