To: timpad
This charge was, arguably, the point where the 19th century ended and the twentieth began. I have heard it and dismissed it as a legend but it has been said that the Union soldiers actually cried as they fired into the defenseless Confederate ranks because the carnage was so great.
I am humbled by the history of this conflict and the men on both sides who died.
15 posted on
07/03/2005 7:20:23 AM PDT by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopeckne is walking around free)
To: muir_redwoods
I am humbled by the history of this conflict and the men on both sides who died.
Hard to imagine the brand of courage that walked up that hill into the storm of fire being poured down on them. And yet, that brand lives on in the Marines of Fallujah, but is now honed with skill and training undreamt of by Pickett.
Tomorrow is a great day to remember how fortunate we are that "Liberty has found such brave defenders."
25 posted on
07/03/2005 7:43:17 AM PDT by
timpad
(The Wizard Tim - Keeper of the Holy Hand Grenade, Finder of Obscurata)
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