[Mr. Silverback]

This yank (Portland Maine, born and raised) has a message for you:

Your Dad was, as we say in the Pine Tree State, "Finest Kind." We send you Isaiah 61:3.

Christ will...
comfort all who mourn,
and provide for those who grieve in Zion-
to bestow on them a crown of beauty
instead of ashes,
the oil of gladness
instead of mourning,
and a garment of praise
instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
a planting of the LORD
for the display of his splendor.

[Mudboy Slim]

Thank you fer that...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

BTW...while yankhater is a scholar of the CivilWar, he is far from a "yankhater"...I've read some of the most balanced analyses of Union/Reb scraps from him than just about anybody. YH knows his SouthernLit, too...ask him about Faulkner sometime.

FReegards...MUD