Gettysburg battle began 148 years ago

[L_N_Love]

The goddam war ended 146 years ago. Give it a rest already. Sheesh.

^^^^ yes...please.

[Xenocide]

The goddam war ended 146 years ago. Give it a rest already. Sheesh.

(Trolling, I live in Atlanta, not Georgia.)

Also, I love living in the south (and history).

While I do enjoy learning about the causes/politics/positions in the civil war, I have no false sense of honor or mysticism about the whole thing, Americans killed each other. Which is no more romantic than Americans getting killed in any other war, much less so since they were fighting each other.

[oldskool]

I had dinner with a gent in his 80's a while back and when he found out I was from the "North" the conversation ended.
Evidently his grandfather's livestock were plundered and then thrown in the irrigation pond wrecking the family farm. Dude was living it just as if it were yesterday and I felt connected somehow even though I hate fried chicken and the term Y'all.

[L_N_Love]

Y'all.

Yeah..."Yous guys" is much more correct.

[a]

150 yrs and it is still a sore spot. Kinda throws perspective on the Sunni/ Shiite conflict or the Christians/ Muslim / Jews in the Middle East.

[Lee in MD]

150 yrs and it is still a sore spot. Kinda throws perspective on the Sunni/ Shiite conflict or the Christians/ Muslim / Jews in the Middle East.

Indeed! Guess that make our little grudge match look like the historical chump change that it is.

BTW, I'm off to see the reenactments at Gettysburg today. I'm so excited. Death to slavers!

[option00002]

150 yrs and it is still a sore spot. Kinda throws perspective on the Sunni/ Shiite conflict or the Christians/ Muslim / Jews in the Middle East.

Indeed! Guess that make our little grudge match look like the historical chump change that it is.

BTW, I'm off to see the reenactments at Gettysburg today. I'm so excited. Death to slavers!

I saw a couple reenactments when I lived in VA. The lasting memory I have is McDonald's wrappers being strewn on the battle field.

Why are there even reenactments? I've never understood it. Must be a southern thing...

EDIT: I want to see a Vietnam reenactment!

[Ken H.]

Why are there even reenactments? I've never understood it. Must be a southern thing... I want to see a Vietnam reenactment!

Better yet, why not a 9/11 reenactment? Krieger would probably go for it in a major way.

[stuartinmn]

I want to see a Vietnam reenactment!

http://www.reenactor.net/korea_nam/vietnam.html

[slammin_e28]

My friends dad did WW2 reinactments. Had all kinds of cool shit in the basement.

[option00002]

I want to see a Vietnam reenactment!

http://www.reenactor.net/korea_nam/vietnam.html

I'm not sure I understand the link/plug. On a side note what a pathetic website.

[option00002]

To me any war reenactment looks like this:



Who wants to remember that?

[stuartinmn]

I want to see a Vietnam reenactment!

http://www.reenactor.net/korea_nam/vietnam.html

I'm not sure I understand the link/plug. On a side note what a pathetic website.

Just answering your question. If you follow the links on that page you can find out where to see Vietnam reenactments.

[option00002]

I want to see a Vietnam reenactment!

http://www.reenactor.net/korea_nam/vietnam.html

I'm not sure I understand the link/plug. On a side note what a pathetic website.

Just answering your question. If you follow the links on that page you can find out where to see Vietnam reenactments.

Ummm I tried that. Perhaps you should click on the links.

[C.R. Krieger]

Why are there even reenactments? I've never understood it. Must be a southern thing... I want to see a Vietnam reenactment!

Better yet, why not a 9/11 reenactment? Krieger would probably go for it in a major way.

How about a reading comprehension reenactment? I wasn't defending reenactors (although I certainly appreciate the sense of history that brings with it); I was arguing that that war should not be forgotten nor ignored for a number of reasons. I daresay it means more to the world today than all the Sunbeam Tigers ever built ...

[Duke]

Sunbeam Tigers

HEY! I have a Sunbeam Tiger.

You want me to tell you about it?

[slammin_e28]

Sunbeam Tigers

HEY! I have a Sunbeam Tiger.

You want me to tell you about it?

I'm all ears....

[Lee in MD]

Well the reenactment today was pretty good. Damn those cannons are loud! I sat in the bleachers behind the guys playing the Confederate artillery and watched them reenact Pickett's Charge. Pretty exiting and fun until the charge was over and half of the Confederate soldiers were dead or wounded. Gotta admit I got a little choked up when they played Taps to finish out the battle scene, but I guess it's only natural since some of my ancestors got greased on both sides of that war.

[Matt]

because you know what? I have no problem with the military shooting you to preserve the union.

I know. That's one of the implications of your worldview, one that you've denied or talked around previously, but which you now openly state.

I've only ever talked about violence in the context of defending yourself against aggression.

You have no such moral highground. You are perfectly fine with killing people who have the "audacity" to disagree with majority opinion. You're a coward and an enabler of the worst sort.

I don't know if you knew it before, but its nice to have it out in the open for everyone.

I wish you no ill will. I want to be left alone. You desperately want to kill me if i dont bow down to your digsuting god of violence, plunder, and corruption.


Happy 4th. Jefferson would have smacked you.

[Duke]

I like bubbles!

[oldskool]

Ryan Dunn had an accident in a Porsche near Gettysburg I heard. He was bubbly.

[Ken H.]

Ryan Dunn had an accident in a Porsche near Gettysburg I heard. He was bubbly.

Matt, ask Krieger if he wants to take part in a reenactment--or should I say, repeat?

[Karl Grau]

I'm making sangria to take to the party across the street.

[Lee in MD]

because you know what? I have no problem with the military shooting you to preserve the union.

I know. That's one of the implications of your worldview, one that you've denied or talked around previously, but which you now openly state.

I've only ever talked about violence in the context of defending yourself against aggression.

You have no such moral highground. You are perfectly fine with killing people who have the "audacity" to disagree with majority opinion. You're a coward and an enabler of the worst sort.

I don't know if you knew it before, but its nice to have it out in the open for everyone.

I wish you no ill will. I want to be left alone. You desperately want to kill me if i dont bow down to your digsuting god of violence, plunder, and corruption.


Happy 4th. Jefferson would have smacked you.

Yes, I agree with Matt that this sentiment is a tad harsh. I don't agree with a lot of what he says but as far as I know he's minding his own business so I don't think we need to be calling for his untimely demise at the hands of the State.

Last time I checked, spouting off and annoying everyone on the interwebz wasn't punishable by death. I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure it isn't even a misdemeanor.

[slammin_e28]

Last time I checked, spouting off and annoying everyone on the interwebz wasn't punishable by death. I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure it isn't even a misdemeanor.

Better not move to TN then!

[Mike W.]

Sunbeam Tigers

HEY! I have a Sunbeam Tiger.

You want me to tell you about it?

I'm really not much interested in a Tiger, but compared to the rest of this thread, yeah, bring it on, I'm all ears.

This is a good example of why politics are to be avoided, passions run high and making a point isn't enough, insults and inflamitory comments get thown in. To no good end. I've PM'd somebody here once over politics and I agreed with his position but not his style.

Tigers. Yeah!

[podgorny]

I know. That's one of the implications of your worldview, one that you've denied or talked around previously, but which you now openly state.

I've only ever talked about violence in the context of defending yourself against aggression.

You have no such moral highground. You are perfectly fine with killing people who have the "audacity" to disagree with majority opinion. You're a coward and an enabler of the worst sort.

I don't know if you knew it before, but its nice to have it out in the open for everyone.

I wish you no ill will. I want to be left alone. You desperately want to kill me if i dont bow down to your digsuting god of violence, plunder, and corruption.


Happy 4th. Jefferson would have smacked you.

I know it doesn't pertain to this thread.
But every time I see your avatar, I think it's you, accepting a warm glass of breast milk.
It weirds me out, and you should change it.

[Matt]

I know it doesn't pertain to this thread.
But every time I see your avatar, I think it's you, accepting a warm glass of breast milk.
It weirds me out, and you should change it.

Better?

The main problem is your unnatural reaction to breastmilk. It's another one of those amazing things the body can do that doctors don't quite have figured out.

[C.R. Krieger]

because you know what? I have no problem with the military shooting you to preserve the union.

I know. That's one of the implications of your worldview, one that you've denied or talked around previously, but which you now openly state.

I've only ever talked about violence in the context of defending yourself against aggression.

You have no such moral highground. You are perfectly fine with killing people who have the "audacity" to disagree with majority opinion.

Oh, give it a f***ing rest! You'll twist anything anyone says to fit your 'worldview' (A favorite reactionary-coined term to mean "anything I don't agree with") of poor little you against the Big Bad Gubbmint. Suck it up and learn to live in this society or get the hell out of the US. You think you're too goddamned good for the rest of us, so just leave.

You're a coward and an enabler of the worst sort.

And you're a liar and a baiter of the worst sort.

I wish you no ill will.

Bullshit. You want me dead because we're not bending to your will and you're not happy about it. More lying.

I want to be left alone.

No you don't. You want to screw over all the unfortunates in society because they aren't as good as you and, if we all don't just kiss your little ass, you want somebody to kill you so you can be a martyr - kind of like a Muslim terrorist. Don't flatter yourself. You aren't worth a bullet.

You desperately want to kill me if i dont bow down to your digsuting god of violence, plunder, and corruption.

I don't want to kill anybody. I just said it would be fine with me if somebody did you in for your arrogant (feigned) refusal to coexist - even though it is whatever "digsuting (sic) god of violence, plunder, and corruption" that may exist that makes you a very well-paid pawn of Microsoft. So suck it up and STFU.

[podgorny]

The main problem is your unnatural reaction to breastmilk. It's another one of those amazing things the body can do that doctors don't quite have figured out.

Good sir, it is you whose reaction to breastmilk is unnatural. Appreciation, curiosity, indifference, even some amount of revulsion are all perfectly normal responses. Exuberance is not normal.