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Posted on 5/4/24 at 7:08 pm to Kafka
Actress-dancer Lina Salomé on her Harley-Davidson motorcycle in Havana, 1956
Posted on 5/4/24 at 11:08 pm to kywildcatfanone
The day I tagged General Sherman's headstone. Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri.
Posted on 5/5/24 at 1:59 pm to LookSquirrel
Shirley MacLaine bikini wardrobe test for What a Way to Go, 1964. She looks thrilled. One of the glamorous parts of the job.
Posted on 5/5/24 at 2:01 pm to mauser
But her Mama thinks she's lovely.
Posted on 5/5/24 at 2:02 pm to MISSOURI WALTZ
"Honorable" and Sherman do not belong in the same page together.
Posted on 5/5/24 at 2:09 pm to udtiger
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"Honorable" and Sherman do not belong in the same page together.
You mad? War is Hell.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 6:26 am to udtiger
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"Honorable" and Sherman do not belong in the same page together.
As Sherman was passing through Georgia he spied an old friend from Louisiana being held in a POW camp. David F. Boyd had been captured by Union forces and sentenced to death for spying.
Sherman had founded the Louisiana Military Seminary (known to us as LSU) and Boyd had been one of the instructors at the new institution. Boyd, along with most of the faculty and students, had joined the Confederate cause and he had been captured and tried for spying.
Sherman went to the prison camp's commander and interceded on Boyd's behalf, stating that Boyd was an honorable man and would have been a participant in battle and in battle planning with his background and that spying would have been beneath Boyd's character and necessary abilities.
Boyd was released form the camp the next morning with instructions to return to Louisiana and no longer participate in actions against Union forces. He later oversaw the transition of the Louisiana State Seminary to become LSU and became the first superintendent of Louisiana State University.
Sherman was indeed an honorable man. He fought with a vengeance for the side in which he believed and did so in a manner to inflict the most immediate pain and suffering in order to bring that war to a swift conclusion and avoid further protracting hostilities. He is frequently quoted as stating "War is hell." His actions were brutal but they did indeed shorten the war and prevent further weakening of a nation that had not yet reached the century mark of its age.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 9:05 am to Kafka
Old Falstaff keg truck.. '73 was a time when Falstaff was the #2 beer in the country. #1 in the South.
This post was edited on 5/6/24 at 9:07 am
Posted on 5/6/24 at 1:07 pm to MorbidTheClown
Originated in 1933 World's Fair - Chicago
This post was edited on 5/6/24 at 1:09 pm
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