Posted on 09/20/2002 4:06:42 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!
Good morning!! Do not let the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our freedom, die in vain!!
Reaction in Congress to the President's draft resolution was wholly along partisan lines. Republicans hailed the resolution and said it should be adopted. Demonflops, notwithstanding the language was based largely on a former resolution sponsored by IML Daschle, said changes needed to be made. Such changes would include, if the illegitimate chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Levin, had his way, requiring the President to get UN authorization for an attack before starting combat.
US intelligence agenices are trying to track down a missing Sudanese Air Force pilot who, it is said, is planning to hijack an aircraft and fly it into the White House.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed below 8,000 yesterday.
And the White House is furious over a German official's remark comparing President Bush to former German leader Adolf Hitler.
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
What a good read! Thank you. Wish I was in your class, battle sites of the Civil War are so "haunted" and instructive. My great-grandfather fought in West Tennessee and Kentucky with the 7th Indiana Cavalry ~ ~ but he returned to Tennessee after the war and married a Southern Belle! 296 posted on 9/19/02 7:49 PM Pacific by jtill
Weather Channel is saying they are real bad storms..
That is really something. The idiot governor at first denied it. Was he so stupid as to not know there would be phone call records of all phone calls from his office?
Can you imagine lying when it seems certain you will be caught in the lie. If one is crazy enough to lie he has to incorporate all the things that are going to come out in the lie. This guy didn't. He was not even smart enough to seek council before he opened his mouth to the press.
It was natural for it not to occur to Clinton that Monica would save her semen stained dress, but to think that phone records won't come out is really something else.
You will notice the difference between Clinton and this Governor. Clinton had relationships with lots of females. None of the females ever thought it would amount to anything except an affair. Jennifer and the others knew better. They were trying for Clinton, knowing the odds againt getting him were slim. They did not really turn on him. Only those who charged him with rape turned on Bill.
This gal in Kentucky is mad she wants to hurt the GOV and is doing so.
Men like Clinton never go after women. They know how to make themselves attractive enough so that women make a play for them. If the gai succeeds in being intimate with him she sees that as success. If that is all it ever is, then she has acheived a part of her goal. She is not angry with him. Women in such circumstances are not mad at a man for dropping them. They just failed to get him.
Now consider a man who goes after women for ilicit sex. He offers more than the sex to get the sex. When he backs out, the woman is very angry. He lied to her and hurt her. She will try to make him pay. This is one governor who does not know much about human nature.
All men have enough blood to run their brain and their sexual organ... only a few have enough to run both at the same time. This governor certainly didn't.
UG put your foot down once and for all....
We arrived at the Carter House and museum at the same time as a school bus full of kids who were coming for the tour. I was afraid that we'd be overrun, but it worked out really well. In fact, the museum historian talked to our class and half of the kids together and because he was speaking to kids, he kept his language plain and simple which made it easier for my students.
There are many fascinating facts about the Battle of Franklin. It is, according to the historian, the bloodiest battle in American history. It didn't have the highest death toll, but in terms of deaths per hour and also the cost to the army (16 brigadier generals were killed there and nearly 100 other officers), it was the worst. And it all was stupid military strategy to try a frontal attack against an army that already had entrenchments and were well armed.
The people involved were also fascinating. General Cleburne, the one who proposed that ths South free the slaves and have them fight as soldiers, led his men in heavy fighting and was killed there. (There's a marker in the parking lot of the Dominoes Pizza place to show where he was killed.) General Douglas MacArthur's father, Arthur MacArthur, was wounded in the battle where he fought across the street from where we were today. (My Japanese, Chinese and Korean students all know MacArthur well.)
But the most interesting story about the Battle of Franklin is about Tod Carter. It was his house that we visited today. By age 18 he was a practicing lawyer. He joined the army in May 1962, was captured in 1963, escaped while being transported to Pennsylvania, rejoined the Army of Tennessee where he served as a soldier (maybe an officer) and as a war correspondent for a confederate paper. Today we stood on the hill from which Hood's Confederate forces were sent into battle and know that Tod Carter must have been looking at his own house where he was born and raised for the first time in 2 and a half years. He was going home. But the battle he had to go into to get home was fierce and he was shot down 180 yards southwest of his own house. The next day his father and sisters found him and carried him home where he died the next day in the very room where he was born.
When I learned about Tod Carter on Tuesday, I couldn't get my mind on anything else. In fact, I cried in my dreams that night as I was dreaming about him and his family. I hope that some of my students choose to write about Tod Carter for their writing assignment.
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