[Colonel Kangaroo]

my 13 year old Daughter’s final comment on it was “Things would have be a lot different for us if Stonewall hadn’t been shot at Chancellorsville.” The “us” rolled off her tongue like she was talking about something that happened last week to her volleyball team.

Had the rebs won the war, she'd probably be speaking Russian or German and have pictures of Robert E. Lee and Lenin in her classroom. The USA had to win the Civil War to keep the old world and its evils out of our land.

[cowboyway]

Had the rebs won the war, she'd probably be speaking Russian or German......The USA had to win the Civil War to keep the old world and its evils out of our land.

Place the bong on the floor and slowly walk away!

[phi11yguy19]

yes, the evils of marxism have stayed far, far away ever since. and marx’s letter to lincoln was really meant for jefferson davis. you must be smoking the good stuff today

[Who is John Galt?]

Had the rebs won the war, she'd probably be speaking Russian or German and have pictures of Robert E. Lee and Lenin in her classroom. The USA had to win the Civil War to keep the old world and its evils out of our land.

Strange - I'm getting this mental picture of a kids' show host (Mr. Rogers, maybe?), pushing a wheelbarrow full of comic books down main street, while playing John Brown's Body on a kazoo...

;>)

[Who is John Galt?]

(Hope you were not offended by my post #153 - I just think it’s impossible to determine ‘might-have-beens’ a few decades after the fact, let alone a century and a half later... ;>)