Posted on 05/23/2014 9:22:50 AM PDT by massmike
Those that forget (or never knew) history are doomed to repeat it.
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I stood on that bridge and I heard the shot. It’s spooky, and inspiring.
Unless drastic changes are made, the country that my great grandfather, grandfather, father, and I fought for is lost
I shed tears...............
The morning I took this picture was at the end of February, and it was a bitter cold, windy day. It was a big day, I was going live with a new system I had been working for a couple of years to implement. I had got home at 0300, and slept until 0930 to head back in. Rush hour traffic was over and the road was pretty empty, and I decided to take the scenic route into work instead of taking Route 2 in. As I came up to where the bridge was, I realized the road had been shut down because the bridge carrying traffic was under repair. As I turned around, I realized where I was, and uncharactristically got out.
There wasn't a soul anywhere, not a sound of a car...only the blustery wind of the kind that brought tears to the eyes.
It was stunningly beautiful. Now that I think of it, I took the day off today, and am going to head over there now, actually...:)
Ramius...Have you visited Gettysburg???
When I was there, I could “feel” battles...Smell it...
It don’t know the correct words to describe the thoughts, emotions, and feelings. Both my wife and I have discussed, over the years, the feelings we BOTH shared at this hallowed ground.
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“In a 2009 survey by The American Revolution Center, 83% failed a basic test on America’s founding.”
I bet they’d ace a test on LGBT issues...
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My great gramps..times 4, fought under Parker there, as well as Breeds Hill. He had no choice as his farm was at the base of Winters Hill along the river, at Charlestown.
Many of my other ancestors fought around there as well.
Levi Temple.
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I bet it wasn't just the wind that brought tears to your eyes.
else why would my eyes be tearing?
Thanks. You know, that was probably the single most shocking thing I found in my book, even more so than the continued insistence that the Rosenbergs were innocent-—despite the testimony of their best friend and their attorney.
Actually, the Hanoverian dynasty was pretty darn benign by any standard. Had the Revolution failed we might have ended up as a really large Canada or Australia. There are certainly much worse fates.
Of course, Canada and Oz turned out as they did very largely because the Brits looked back at what happened here and realized they never wanted to do that again.
The determination that America must declare its Independence was based primarily on the notion that King and Parliament were involved in a conscious conspiracy to enslave Americans.
Problem is that we have the records of Cabinet meetings and such, and there quite simply was no such plan or intent. The British government's actions with regard to America, at least before the fighting broke out, were much more the result of not paying attention than of evil intent.
They underestimated Americans, thinking of us as the overseas equivalent of their own lower classes. But there was no real malevolence there.
Planning to see it in person on day, but this works for a quick fix. I've done the same search on other battle areas, but sometimes there's really nothing to see.
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