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Is their Glory in War? War is defined as a struggle or competition between opposing forces or for a particular end. It also carries along this preconceived notion as horrible, dreadful, last resort type of situation. War is something you cry about and when you watch the footage on television it makes one want to cringe. It is a time of depression and it seems that everything in ones life seems to stop, and is focused on something completely different, safety. I rarely hear war talked about in a good way, or rather in a glorious way, I definitely never thought of war in a positive light. After seeing the movie “Glory” in class, I have a new found respect for the army and the actual act of war. The film “Glory” tells the story of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Regiment, the first regular army regiment of black soldiers commissioned during the Civil War. At the beginning of the war, most peop