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re: A letter from a Civil War officer to his wife - July 14, 1861
Posted on 7/14/19 at 10:11 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 7/14/19 at 10:11 pm to RollTide1987
From the first episode of Ken Burns’ Civil War, iirc.
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Posted on 7/14/19 at 10:14 pm to lowspark12
158 years ago today.
Posted on 7/14/19 at 10:15 pm to RollTide1987
quote:2019 translation
RollTide1987
@finearsesarah
Bae,
YOLO, If I make it back we are clapping cheeks
#Murica
This post was edited on 7/14/19 at 10:18 pm
Posted on 7/14/19 at 10:18 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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People wrote more elegantly back then.
Better educated.
Posted on 7/14/19 at 10:21 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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IQ levels are actually dropping
quit being racist
Posted on 7/14/19 at 10:24 pm to el Gaucho
People could both write elegantly.. or barely write a lick back then...
That is a great letter. Thanks for sharing.
I have a few WWII letters to and from a Husband and wife that I enjoy reading. One day I may share them here. I love the fact that they are just so simple every day things... But they wrote each other EVERY DAY without fail. I think I have about 30 from each for a total of 60.
Also a Christmas letter home from a Naval Officer in '44 and a V letter home from foot soldier in Italy '44
That is a great letter. Thanks for sharing.
I have a few WWII letters to and from a Husband and wife that I enjoy reading. One day I may share them here. I love the fact that they are just so simple every day things... But they wrote each other EVERY DAY without fail. I think I have about 30 from each for a total of 60.
Also a Christmas letter home from a Naval Officer in '44 and a V letter home from foot soldier in Italy '44
This post was edited on 7/14/19 at 10:26 pm
Posted on 7/14/19 at 10:24 pm to Sao
I read his letter out to my family.
Posted on 7/14/19 at 10:24 pm to RollTide1987
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It was written just days before the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the Civil War
so wait, do we need to burn this letter or not???
Posted on 7/14/19 at 10:27 pm to RollTide1987
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This post was edited on 7/14/19 at 10:30 pm
Posted on 7/14/19 at 10:29 pm to RollTide1987
Many people today would claim Megan Rapinhoe or Colin Kapernick a much braver hero.
Posted on 7/14/19 at 10:31 pm to RollTide1987
Thoust needs pics of Sarah.
Posted on 7/14/19 at 10:31 pm to RollTide1987
What the frick has happened to the English language?
That was eloquent and precise.
I'd bet money many of today's youth cannot grasp many of the words written there.
That was eloquent and precise.
I'd bet money many of today's youth cannot grasp many of the words written there.
Posted on 7/14/19 at 10:41 pm to WWII Collector
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But they wrote each other EVERY DAY without fail. I think I have about 30 from each for a total of 60.
I do think that is awesome and I’d read the letters if you posted them.
But if they had the ability to text, email, call at any given second, would they mail a letter? Think of the options now. Do we not communicate daily with our family? The passion for our love ones has not diminished. Nor the education.
People love to shite upon today’s society. But let’s keep it in perspective. The OP’s letter was written in a time when America was at war with itself because some wanted to keep humans as slaves.
I know that wasn’t your point. This soapbox was for other people who think we were smarter back then and we are regressing now.
Posted on 7/14/19 at 10:49 pm to kciDAtaE
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I do think that is awesome and I’d read the letters if you posted them.
Thanks... I'll do that one day... They are very entertaining in a simple kind of way... They just describe their daily lives. He was a SeaBee in the Pacific and she worked at trucking company as a secretary/office person...
Here is just one example of a part of one of her letters to him.
"We got a new girl here in the office. But I don't think that she's gonna last. She just doesn't seem to want to work."
I have to laugh because they were going through some of the same stuff then that we are now... lol...
One of his letters to her talks about how him and the boys were sitting around the radio listening to Kate Smith entertain the Troops in Britain... You have to keep in mind that he was in the Pacific, and they were listening to a radio broadcast from England before the Invasion of Normandy...
This post was edited on 7/14/19 at 10:52 pm
Posted on 7/14/19 at 11:09 pm to RollTide1987
Civil War board
Posted on 7/14/19 at 11:10 pm to WWII Collector
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One of his letters to her talks about how him and the boys were sitting around the radio listening to Kate Smith entertain the Troops in Britain... You have to keep in mind that he was in the Pacific, and they were listening to a radio broadcast from England before the Invasion of Normandy...
My grandfather fought in the Pacific. Please post the letters. He never wanted to talk about his time there and I’d like to read. TIA
Posted on 7/14/19 at 11:19 pm to Vols&Shaft83
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Letter from typical E1-E3 July 14th, 2015
"Dear Julie, It is hot as frick out here in the dessert. ...
Love, Rodney
P.S. Don't frick nobody while I'm gone "
Dude at least give Greg Giraldo his credit for writing that
Posted on 7/14/19 at 11:26 pm to Jim Rockford
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Acting troupes would tour 19th century mining camps putting on Shakespearian productions. They played to packed houses. The miners, who were well familiar with Shakespeare, could be harsh critics, jeering and throwing things if they thought the performance was below par.
TL;DR, the baws of that day were more culturally literate than even the elites of today.
Yeah well, we have Pornhub. So the jokes on them.
Posted on 7/14/19 at 11:34 pm to kciDAtaE
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We are smarter than ever
Some of us, maybe.
With electronics and technology, sure. With language and philosophy and critical thinking, the unwashed masses are woefully ignorant, to the point of refusing to educate themselves with the resources at their literal fingertips.
Posted on 7/14/19 at 11:42 pm to WestlakeTiger
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What the frick has happened to the English language? That was eloquent and precise
When you give the power of language and education to the lowest common denominators, those that must be forced into schools and have no real desire to learn and better themselves, expect it to be bastardized.
The old ways were wooden. Carved by and and time consuming but in the end, beautiful and lasting. Now we live in a plastic, throwaway world where nothing is built to last. Everything is disposable. The words, the people, the places even. And so we have throwaway language. Can’t even be bothered to spell out the simplest of words.
More pictures were taken today than were taken in the first hundred years of photography, and of what? Nothing. The vast majority will be looked at once, or not at all and forgotten. Or were one of the thousands of pictures of nothing teenagers take every day.
Technology, knowledge, and power are in the hands of the wrong people.
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