Ping!
Hey Johnny Reb, nice video. Still a shame you southern boys still lost! BWAHAHAHAHA! sucka
That's no video, it's a slide show. Yep, it really needs to be in the News section.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUigNi5HZ2U
Excellent! Lock and Load and I live in New York.
Dixie Ping
Many years after the Civil War, Sergeant Berry Benson, a South Carolina veteran from McGowan's brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, who had enlisted at age 18, three months before Fort Sumter was fired upon, and served through Appomattox, made an interesting statement. He said that when he got around to composing his reminiscences, he found that reliving the war in words made him wish he could relive it in fact, and he came to believe that he and his fellow soldiers, gray and blue, might one day be able to to do just that; if not here on earth, then afterwards in Valhalla. "Who knows, " he asked, "but it may be given to us, after this life, to meet again in the old quarters, to play chess and draughts, to get up soon to answer the morning roll call, to fall in at the tap of the drum for drill and dress parade, and again to hastily don our war gear while the monotonous patter of the long roll summons to battle? Who knows but again the old flags, ragged and torn, snapping in the wind, may face each other and flutter, pursuing and pursued, while the cries of victory fill a summer day? And after the batrtle, then the slain and wounded will arise, and all will be talking and laughter and cheers, and all will say: Did it not seem real? Was it not as in the old days?"
(from The Civil War: a Narrative: Volume III. Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote. New York: Vintage Books, 1986. p. 1048).
Not bad. Looks like a lot of then were stills pulled from Gods and Generals. I occasionally play the DVD just to hear the haunting song that is sung while the flags are shown in progresssion.
One last comment, Someone else (maybe Charlie Daniels) would have been better than Tom Petty. As far as TP
, love his music, but abhor his politics.
Great thread. bttt.