Posted on 08/09/2016 8:07:52 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
As the Rio Olympics kicks off, eeire photographs of the sites of past Olympics games have been revealed In Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, bobsled from 1984 Games was vandalised and is used by mountain bikers There are similar site in Athens, Greece, with a swimming pool in the 2004 Olympic Village filled with brown water In Germany, the site of the 1936 Games, the windows at the athletes village have been boarded up with timber
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“To play on the 1980 rink is something kids remember all their lives.”
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Two of my grandsons did but their father(my son) was more excited than they were.:-)
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I grew up in a little town not far from Shiloh. My parents
used to take me there starting when I was just a kid. -
My great, great grandfather was a Rebel soldier at Shiloh.
My grandmother asked him once, “Grandaddy, what was it like
at Shiloh?” He replied, “Izora, Shiloh was just awful,
horrible, the biggest mess I’ve ever seen in my life!”
Said he didn’t know for sure if he killed anybody or not;
but didn’t see how he could have possibly kept from it.
Was SUCH A MESS! - He DID NOT have slaves. Fought because
Tennessee was being INVADED! - Daddy used to say, “Lincoln
didn’t have to have that war. New inventions were bringing
about the elimination of slavery anyway soon. He simply
WANTED or NEEDED that war.”
Sarajevo made me sad when I saw how war had changed it from a beautiful place to a wasteland.
I couldn't agree more. Why people waste such energy on an institution built upon deceit and treachery - the confederacy - I'll never know.
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