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re: 155 years ago today....Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
Posted on 4/9/20 at 11:19 am to Bayou
Posted on 4/9/20 at 11:19 am to Bayou
The North pretty effectively demonstrated that it had plenty of control over resources necessary to maintain industrial/economic/military power. They weren't the ones hurting for resources and needing outside intervention to win.
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Posted on 4/9/20 at 11:20 am to Ace Midnight
It's amazing he survived given how severe the wound was. The doctor didn't even want to work on him because he thought to do so was futile. But Chamberlain's younger brother held a gun to him and made him at least try to save his life.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 11:27 am to NorthshoreTiger76
Many people today are too quick to deal in absolutes. Would anyone question this Marine's "loyalty" to America? This was taken on Okinawa during WW2.
I sure as hell would not.
I sure as hell would not.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 11:30 am to oleheat
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Many people today are too quick to deal in absolutes. Would anyone question this Marine's "loyalty" to America? This was taken on Okinawa during WW2.
If a marine did that today, 75 years later? Yes, yes they would.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 11:32 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
That would've fricked everything that much harder. Even the wehrmacht turned down that idea a century later with a
Posted on 4/9/20 at 11:38 am to GeorgePaton
The Civil War did not necessarily set Marxism-Socialism into motion in this country (though FDR probably did). I do think it’s clear we are headed towards Marxism from the top in the next decade though (or as soon as the democrats control congress and the WH).
Posted on 4/9/20 at 11:45 am to The Spleen
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You don't have to use today's standards. There was an abolitionist movement at the time and a war fought over it, so the many standards at the time thought it was unjust and inhumane
Not to mention, that the reason a lot of European countries didn't provide any support to the Confederacy was precisely because the act of slavery was viewed as morally deficient even during that time - or so I've read.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 12:06 pm to Mo Jeaux
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f a marine did that today, 75 years later? Yes, yes they would.
That's been done in every war since the civil war- and isn't going to stop, anytime soon.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 12:10 pm to oleheat
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That's been done in every war since the civil war-
k.
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isn't going to stop, anytime soon.
Oh, I bet it will.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 12:15 pm to Ace Midnight
quote:Yep lived with a lot of pain all those years.
He died at age 85, due to complications from wounds received at Petersburg.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 12:16 pm to RollTide1987
frick slavery and frick the Confederacy.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 12:17 pm to Mo Jeaux
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Oh, I bet it will.
Uh huh.
And LSU will choose another mascot, too- because "Fighting Tigers" just brings back too many memories of things none of us actually lived through.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 12:21 pm to oleheat
Every marine in that photo is white
SHOCKING
SHOCKING
Posted on 4/9/20 at 12:29 pm to oleheat
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Uh huh.
Are you the least bit cognizant of the world in which we live?
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And LSU will choose another mascot, too- because "Fighting Tigers" just brings back too many memories of things none of us actually lived through.
Oh for frick's sake.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 12:34 pm to oleheat
quote:I remember the shite storm over this one:
That's been done in every war since the civil war- and isn't going to stop, anytime soon
Posted on 4/9/20 at 12:37 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 4/9/20 at 12:46 pm to Mo Jeaux
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Are you the least bit cognizant of the world in which we live?
The Free World? Yeah, kinda. Look- I'm clear we'll never agree on this- and that's okay. Different opinions are allowed in the free world, too.
This is something that's been around for a very long time, and as long as there are people with a "rebel spirit" in this country, it will not go away. My opinion based on fact. That's all.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 1:07 pm to DeltaDoc
Marxism/Socialism was set in motion by Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, J P Getty and the like. They took advantage of poor immigrants coming from Europe (and Asia). These same immigrants brought concepts of anarchism and Marxism with them from Europe. As the disparity in wealth, wages and working conditions grew, these novel concepts become popular and spread. The STRONGEST deterrent to these concepts is a large, strong and wealthy class.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 1:26 pm to Bayou
Please dude, the Union fought that war with one hsnd tied behind its back. The Northern railroad system was so much more effective on its worst day than the Confederacy had on its best. The North had more foundries to produce cannon and gun. The North had a navy and shpbuilding infrastructure, the South did not. The North had Samuel Colt and NYC . Southerners delude themselves about the whole woulda coulda shoulda.....so many major disadvantages.
Posted on 4/9/20 at 1:27 pm to HempHead
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Poor old Wilmer McLean had two battles on his properties - one to begin the war, the other to end it.
"We don't need an HOA," they said...
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