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08-26-2014, 09:34 PM
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Cushing to get medal of hnor
http://news.msn.com/us/obama-to-awar...il-war-soldier
As he should. Glad its being given, Cushing's actions were simply incredible. Back in late march, standing at the high water mark....just so hard to describe the feeling of standing there and imagining all that happened.
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08-27-2014, 11:22 AM
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Gentlemen! We're burning daylight! Riders up! -Bill Murray
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08-27-2014, 11:43 AM
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shelby foote, james mcpherson-and i'm pretty sure he's included in 'the killer angels'. i hadn't been there since i was probably around 12 years old. we stood on the side (well, i did, i think tony stayed in the car) where the south started their doomed 'pickets charge'. i thought ya gotta be kidding me. it was suicide. and then to stand on the other side....the bloody angle (several battlefields had a spot so named) is just chilling to stand and contemplate. another touching story was of lew armistead. he was a good friend of winfield scott hancock and served with him in california. when war broke out, they separated with armistead going to join the south. he was shot coming over the wall at the angle on that third day. he died a couple days later; he had a soldier carry his effects to hancock, who had also been wounded. fathers and sons fought each other, cousins, brothers, friends...just sad. and all for such a bad cause. oh, and a neat tidbit of trivia.... ben hur, written by lew wallace, a northern general.
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08-27-2014, 01:17 PM
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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think" - Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (1857-1938) When you are right, no one remembers;when you are wrong, no one forgets. Thought for today.."No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong" - Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, French moralist (1613-1680)
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08-27-2014, 02:27 PM
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we were supposed to head up north this december. were going to stay in williamsburg, va...hit petersburg, appamattox, etc in that area and finish off my list of major battlefields. we were going to the winter classic, and i was finally going to go up the washington monument.
well, change of plans. tony couldn't get off work in november to go to calif, so now we're doing all that in december. no winter classic...  but, i'm sure the weather will be much nicer in san diego and the surrounding areas!
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08-27-2014, 02:32 PM
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oh, as for gettysburg and odd stories.
dan sickles joined the army to polish his reputation, which had been hit a bit when he shot and killed his wife's lover-the son of francis scott key no less! he was found not guilty due to temporary insanity... well, he's the moron who moved his troops forward to another hill rather than stay where he'd been told, thus putting his men and the whole northern cause at risk. no telling how many troops were lost due to his idiocy. he was struck in the leg, and they had to amputate. he requested they save the leg. he donated it to a museum, and actually would go and visit the broken limb! weird. it's still on display.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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