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To: AppyPappy

Sorta like the guy who moved his family from the place
where the Civil War started to Appomatox where that war
ended.


421 posted on 11/13/2015 2:21:42 PM PST by Twinkie (JOHN 3:16)
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To: Twinkie

That was the McLean family.

At the start of the Civil War, a shell crashed through their kitchen near Manassas, Virginia during the First Battle of Bull Run, or First Manassas, as the southerners called it. (The northerners liked to name the battles after the nearest creek or stream; the southerners liked to name the battles after the nearest town).

The family moved to Appomattox Court House after the first Battle of Bull Run.

The McLean family used to joke that the Civil War started in their kitchen and ended in their living room.

Sorry to go off topic.

This atrocity in Paris is sickening.


465 posted on 11/13/2015 2:28:00 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Register liberals, not guns!)
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