[combat_boots]

Come April, we celebrate the 150th of the end of the Civil War. You watch. DC will say/do nothing or almost nothing. It hasn’t for the War of 1812, either.

[BroJoeK]

combat_boots: "Come April, we celebrate the 150th of the end of the Civil War."

This is all pretty far off topic, but.... ;-)

My work takes me once or twice a year to Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
April 9 is a Thursday in 2015, and here is a list of events there.

If duties allow, will try to attend...

Sunday, April 9, 1865 is also the anniversary of the little-remembered Battle of Fort Blakely, Mobile, Alabama, in which one of my fresh-off-the-boat, non-English speaking great-grandfathers, having served in the 119th Illinois Volunteer Infantry the entire war without serious injury, was wounded and crippled in his hand.
Someday I hope to visit that site too...