Posted on 05/02/2018 9:26:43 AM PDT by fugazi
1863: During day two of the Battle of Chancellorsville, Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson is shot by a Confederate sentry while performing a leaders-reconnaissance mission. Following the amputation of Jackson’s shattered arm, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will lament, “He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right arm.”
The revered Jackson will die in eight days of pneumonia.
1945: Soldiers with the 82d Airborne and the 8th Infantry Division liberate the Wöbbelin concentration camp in northern Germany. The Nazis allowed many of the 5,000 inmates to starve, and U.S. soldiers found 1,000 dead upon arrival.
The soldiers force nearby German townspeople to visit the camp and bury the dead. Conditions were so extreme at Wöbbelin that some of the inmates had resorted to cannibalism, and hundreds more would die after the camp's liberation.
That same day, Gen. Heinrich von Vietinghoff surrenders all Wehrmacht forces in Italy and the Red Army flies the Soviet flag over the Reichstag building. Berlin has fallen.
1946: When prisoners at Alcatraz riot - breaking into the prison armory and taking hostages - Marines from Treasure Island Naval Base assist in suppressing the riot. Prior to becoming a federal prison, Alcatraz was a military fort and detention facility, housing Confederate prisoners during the Civil War and conscientious objectors during World War I.
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One thing’s for sure. Hussein does not look the person in charge.
As speaker of the Philanthropic I spoke last for our side arguing that Jackson had to have been shot by troops from western NC because If he had been shot by troops from eastern NC he would have died on the spot rather than being wounded.
"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
“Carry me across the river, boys, and let me rest under the shade of the trees.”
And I am confused as to why this is not a holiday at UNC? Seems the marxist scum that populate the administration and student body would celebrate Jackson’s ultimately fatal wound.
I was out at the Chancellorsville battlefield yesterday, hiked the whole thing. Didn’t even realize about the date till I read the monument where Jackson was shot.
I read a biography of General Jackson when I was a boy, and this quote has stuck with me since...
“Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. Captain, that is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave.”
Recalling that line helped me thruout my time in the military, and in the hazardous profession I made my career...
Prior to my commissioning in the Navy forty years ago, my father insisted that I fully understand that I might be called on to kill the nation's enemies, order others into combat in which they died, and even be die myself. If I couldn't handle that, I had no business being a Naval Officer.
I placed myself in God's hands and have been at peace with myself ever since.
"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Stonewall Jackson mistakenly shot by his own men. After the Civil War and the resultant Federal subjugation of the South, these men, haunted by the repercussions of what they did, committed suicide.
Had no idea confederate pows were housed at Alcatraz. That would be a long way to transport prisoners, wouldn’t it?
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