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    Stand Firm Ye Boys From Maine
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Josh Braley

    "Stand Firm Ye Boys From Maine" by Thomas A. Desjardin is about the truth of the 20th Maine Regiment and of the entire battle of Gettysburg during the civil war in 1863.  The theme in this book is stand together in a time of crisis.  On July 2nd 1863 the boys from Maine stood strong and had a powerful impact on the war, if they had fell apart then the war may have had a different outcome.  The role of perspective in the book is historical.

    The title of this book is pretty much the theme for it as well.  "Stand Firm Ye Boys From Maine" is fairly close to the theme, stand together in a time of crisis.  In the battle, the 20th Maine Regiment had a group of musicians, when times got rough and men got thin some of the players fought and some of them acted almost as a medic, carrying stretchers with wounded men on them.  The men in the army were not all people who wanted to be there, but they decided that they would and they were needed so they went along and helped the cause.  Without those men sticking together and standing strong
    The twentieth Maine regiment took part in the Battle for Little Round Top and in this battle they came together as a unit and kicked ass and won.  The soldiers took part in a great down hill bayonet charge to become one of the most famous thing happening there in the battle of Gettysburg.  All of the men in each regiment came together to fight as one army.  By doing so they came out victorious because they stood strong.  This was very important because if this had not have happened then we (north) may have lost the civil war and Gettysburg.
    Standing strong in a time of crisis is a very good thing, good things can happen during bad times.  At the beginning of World War II everyone came together and went to war whether they wanted to or not.  The women went to work making tanks and guns and all of the necessities needed for war.  This was a good thing because it ended the depression by lowering the unemployment rate that before this was at 25%.  In this world people need to stand together and come as one more often, the world would be a much better place to live because one person is weak but billions of people together as one is very strong.
    Stand strong in a time of crisis.  In a time of crisis like the civil war the 20th Maine Regiment stood strong as one and overcame the task at hand.  If people never came together in life then nothing good would ever come.  It is important for coming together as one because we are stronger that way.