Union And Confederate Soldiers Return To Gettysburg On 50th Anniversary

Twitter ^ | 06/30/18 | Michael Beschloss

[Enlightened1]

Union and Confederate soldiers return to Gettysburg on 50th anniversary of Civil War battle that began 155 years ago tomorrow:

 

 

[miss marmelstein]

Calm down; I’ve asked the mods to remove it. Carry on, please, without the usual vituperation.

[CodeToad]

“Calm down; I’ve asked the mods to remove it.”

I hope they don’t. FR isn’t for cowards or crybabies that just want to control FR.

[Let's Roll]

Wow, that image is powerful.

Well done.

[Texas Fossil]

Yes, I’ve seen that too.

Amazing. Such a bloody war it was.

And the bitterness lingered 150 years in some places.

[miss marmelstein]

It’s gone. You can have a good cry about.

[CodeToad]

“Calm down;”

Backatcha. You got on your typical high-horse because a thread didn’t go your way.

[EvilCapitalist]

I love the pics, but I thought Getty images were a no no?

[Texas Fossil]

Thank you for posting. Extremely powerful images should make us cautious about getting into a repeat. I see no issue with what was and is.

[piroque]

Not hardly ,it’s still here ,dearie ,got your pink hat on today I see

[wardaddy]

Appropriate respect from those who fought towards each other

Compare that to self righteous NeoCon virtue signaling scorn today of the souths history

“But wardaddy you hate Yankees”

Hardly but I detest anti southern bigots attacking America’s perennial socaillly conservative bastian

[Enlightened1]

My pleasure.

[Vaquero]

Yeah. No longer politically correct to paint the confederate battle flag on the roof of your Dodge Charger.

The left is populated by weenies.

[Enlightened1]

Well said and agree 100%

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

It is pretty obvious Miss Marmelstein was referring to her own post that she asked to have removed, not the entire thread.

[piroque]

I see one post removed , guess the old saying fits “If’n you can’t take heat ,get out of the kitchen”

[VeniVidiVici]

Thanks for those pics. I frequently drive through Gettysburg as part of my job. Always get goosebumps.

[Simon Foxx]

The newsreel that you recall was made at a later reunion, around 1930, I believe. I saw it on the old PBS program “Lowell Thomas Remembers” back in the 1970s. And yes, you can hear a man howl, followed by him saying “that’s the rebel yell”.

[VeniVidiVici]

I find this photograph heartbreaking!! FIFTY years after one of the bloodiest battles in our history and the combatants reach out to each other and shake hands. Old men, whose brothers in arms are to be FOREVER YOUNG. I find it heartbreaking because in today’s world the side that lost a mere ELECTION unforginingly fights on with increasing hatred and incitement to violence. Despite their bitter past, those in the picture would proclaim themselves as AMERICANS. How and what does today’s LEft choose as the words to label themselves. It sure as hell does not have the same meaning as the AMERICANS in the photo.

Very well put. Thanks.

[Vermont Lt]

Bullshit.

I am willing to bet that none of the men there gave, or expected any forgiveness. At the time they were all doing their jobs. And most of them would have chosen to be anywhere else.

I willing to bet they were all just happy to be alive.

[Fast Moving Angel]

Well said and I agree. No matter how you slice it, and whether or not you believe that the South had a Constitutional right to secede, these were Americans on both sides ... Americans fighting Americans. Who among those Americans, 150+ years ago, could have envisioned that today, 150+ years later, we’d be battling foreign invaders as well as the so-called “Americans” who side with them, and who purport to call for a “Second Civil War”. What a waste.