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2019-08-25 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-25 00:53|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 ...I visited Gettysburg 24 years ago, and it is still one of the most powerful experiences of my life, especially up on Little Round Top where the battle was really decided.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-08-25 06:43|| 2019-08-25 06:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Historic battlefield visits are valuable.
When I was at Gettysburg some years ago an instructor from the Army War College was teaching his class at the same stop I was explaining the battle to my kids. Have also gone to Vicksburg and Chickamauga.
I have visited a similar suite of important Revolutionary War sites - Valley Forge, Cowpens, Fort Ticonderoga, Yorktown.

Posted by Glenmore 2019-08-25 10:06|| 2019-08-25 10:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Antietam is also well worth a visit.
Good to make a bike trip there: you can better appreciate the terrain and its impact on the course of the battle.

Posted by Lex 2019-08-25 12:02|| 2019-08-25 12:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Re Antietam (Sharpsburg for Southern folk), just don't lose your cigars...

Posted by Lex 2019-08-25 12:03|| 2019-08-25 12:03|| Front Page Top

Strange isn't the political lines do not seem to have changed a great deal in 155 years.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-25 12:08|| 2019-08-25 12:08|| Front Page Top

#6 A Northern California school district recently got a bee (not Babylon Bee) in its bonnet about one of their schools named Dixie.

The woke faction, nationwide, has gone mad. It's a contagion.

Maybe we're not yet at the Bleeding Kansas stage, but it is indeed beginning to feel a bit like the Pierce or Buchanan era...

Posted by Lex 2019-08-25 12:31|| 2019-08-25 12:31|| Front Page Top

#7 If you live in the South, the reminders of the Civil War are ever-present wherever you go. In the North there are not the reminders of this important era in our history. Today, the geographical divisions such as the Mason-Dixson line have faded into history with the widespread mobility of people in the U.S. since the Civil War. Today, the divisions within the country are largely ideological but every bit as bitter.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-08-25 15:45|| 2019-08-25 15:45|| Front Page Top

#8 WRT Gettysburg. We took the advice to hire a driving tour guide. Unless you're very well versed in the details, you'd probably find it worth it too.

Posted by james 2019-08-25 17:04|| 2019-08-25 17:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Shiloh at dusk is downright spooky...

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