Heroic last stand, a rout or something in between, does it really matter? An outnumbered and possibly out gunned group of soldiers doing their duty died with their boots on. To me it matters not if the soldier fell in the Revolution,1812, Early indian wars, civil war, later indian wars, Spanish American war, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Boxer Rebellion, Punitive Expedition, The Great War, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, Dom Rep again, Grenada, Panama, Desert Storm, 911, Iraq, Afganistan, GWOT, Ft Hood 1 or II, Camp Legune or even in a training accident - Hearing Taps for any of them rips my heart out. Strangely or maybe not so strangely I found when I visited a WWII German cemetery I felt as sad as I did at the American Cemetery in Luxemburg where I went to visit Patton's Grave.