Shameless Vanity: Facing Duty With Honor and Valor

You Tube ^ | July 3, 2017 | buckalfa

[buckalfa]

Just a short clip from the movie Gettysburg to remind us both of the horror and courage displayed 154 years ago on this date.

Those who have served excepted, how many of us would truly be willing to give all for their God, family and country?

Whatever your viewpoint is on the American Civil War, never forget the events depicted. The time may yet come again.

[buckalfa]

https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=BYgdwocfhls

[ilovesarah2012]

Blacks have been so brainwashed. Have you ever seen some of their posts on Facebook? So many of them really hate white people. I will not be surprised when TSHTF.

[vooch]

there is nothing heroic about senseless slaughter

[Alberta's Child]

Yeah -- I never understood that kind of thinking. I watch a scene from a Civil War movie, and my first reaction is: "What definition of liberty and freedom includes marching across an open field into hostile fire just because some @sshole in Washington thinks it's a good idea?!"

[MaxistheBest]

The link takes you to ... nothing!!

[ReaganGeneration2]

These men were heroic. Their leaders, maybe the Generals, but certainly above them (yes, Lincoln), must have been either maniacal monsters or senselessly incompetent.

[vooch]

“..These men were heroic. Their leaders, maybe the Generals, but certainly above them (yes, Lincoln), must have been either maniacal monsters or senselessly incompetent...”

good point - I agree wholeheartedly with your second sentance, have some trouble with the first, but the only way to definitely define the precise meaning of ‘heroic’ would be sharing a good bottle of single malt along with some fine cigars. :)

[Campion]

The men doing the marching across the field into fire were Confederates, and answered to Longstreet (in the main), Lee, and Jeff Davis.

A lot of ink has been spilled trying to answer why R.E. Lee thought Pickett's charge was a good idea. Longstreet became basically a pariah in the South after the war because he had the temerity to state (a) it was a mistake; and (b) it was Lee's mistake.

[Campion]

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armstead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.... -- William Faulkner, "Intruder in the Dust"

[TallahasseeConservative]

My ancestor went forward with the 11th Mississippi during Pickett’s Charge. My ancestor with the 124th New York stood on the other side of the killing ground. Both men heroic and both men honorable. Unfortunately, only one of them is allowed to be honored in the current clime.

[central_va]

You are proving yourself a f—k head - once again.

[Alberta's Child]

Wow — they still let you post here?