Robert, I think when the actual participants on both sides were alive, they respected and understood each other, and had no problem either parading or fighting on the same side. Remember Joe Wheeler fought in the Spanish American War, as an aging cavalryman. When the WTBS was over, the Confederates furled their flags and rejoined the country they were born to, at least after the bad period of Reconstruction was over. Google Fitzgerald, Georgia; it is a very intresting story and on point. As to the Germans, in WWII many of the POWs brought over here did not go back. I doubt if they marched in any parades, but you never know. Regarding WWI, there was the Christmas Truce, where the Americans and Germans unofficially joined together in the trenches on Christmas Eve and sang carols with one another. If any came over here perhaps they associated with their former enemies. War in those days still had a degree of honor and compassion missing today. The ancestors of some of those doughboys came over to escape war in Germany in the 1840s. Maybe they found relatives when they went back to France to fight them. History is messy, not neat and black and white as the powers that be would teach us. It's more like a big family story, with love, hate, lies, and feuding spun through it. I learned that from George Griffin, my high school history teacher, who taught us many things not found in the books; at leaast those used to "educate" us. He gave me a life long love of history. Stan