And under a law passed by Congress this summer their number will drop even further as they are gradually replaced by professional soldiers.

而且，根据今年夏天由国会通过的一项法律，志愿者入伍的数量甚至还会进一步减少，因为他们会逐渐被职业军人取代。

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Civil War militia, Photograph showing soldiers, many on horseback, and a cannon with two attendants on each side. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington.

内战期间的士兵，很多人骑在马上，两名随从站在一门加农炮两侧。

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In the Library of Congress catalog, the photograph "Dead Soldiers at Antietam, 1862," is listed twice, under the names of both Brady and Gardner.

在美国国会图书馆的目录里，名为“《安蒂·特姆阵亡的士兵》，1862年”被收录了两次，都归于布雷迪和加德纳名下。

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The Confederate Congress passed a bill in March of eighteen sixty-five to accept Negroes as soldiers.

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It found many ways to spend it. For example, Congress raised payments to soldiers who had fought in the Civil War during the eighteen sixties.

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NATO, and it would mean that American troops were less likely to be involved in peacekeeping (which the Pentagon believes dulls combat soldiers' fighting edge and for which Congress can lack enthusiasm).

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To their numbers must be added tens of millions of government employees, from the president and the members of Congress down to teachers, firemen, soldiers and veterans.

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"Congress has not acted (and) our soldiers should not have to wait any longer, " he said.

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