I couldn't help but notice a similarity with current history. If indeed a large part of the beginning of the feud had to do with the Hatfield fellow concluding the South's cause in the war was lost and opting to make more productive use of his scrawny behind while the McCoy man insisted that he should stay and fulfill duty to God and country, this reminds me a bit of the rancor over Vietnam, where a fairly large number of citizens decided the war was not worth waging while an approx. equal amount were determined to fight until doomsday and were embittered at their perception of abandonment.

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