The Civil War was a turbulent and volatile period in our great nation’s past. But their was more to this war than states rights and slavery. Foremost, this was a war of facial hair, the kind the United States had never seen and will likely never see again.
Please watch this video (the opening credits to the movie, Gettysburg) and remember a simpler time when the world was a different place and stunning facial dominated the American landscape.
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Nothing better than true Americans with the best facial hair you well ever find. That, and I’m starting to wonder if Sam Elliot actually served in the Civil War. The transition from him to the guy he’s playing is practically seamless.
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