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To: nathanbedford
Love your moniker. I went to a junior hi school named after this brilliant and under appreciated military genius.

One thing that was weird in a goofy sort of way. I was there the first year of REAL desegregation in Alabama. Here you had all these black kids streaming into their first year of HS into a school named for the founder of the Ku Klux Klan. None of us knew, or remembered that. Actually, the KNOW ALABAMA state history books had told us that, but we didn't quite process the connection, and none of the black kids said anything about it.

Of course, during those years we were all too busy trying to be footballs studs and score chicks to worry about that stuff, but anyway.

Nathan Bedford Forrest was a cavalry genius. I understand the "fustest with the mostest" man's tactics are still studied at West Point.

29 posted on 12/05/2005 4:09:13 AM PST by chronic_loser (Handle provided free of charge as flame bait for the neurally vacant.)
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To: chronic_loser

Beford Forrest didn't start the Klowns, he abolished them the first time, The democrats founded the Klan and installed him as their leader.

This Beford Forrest is almost as clueless as the original one was about the democrats stratergery.

Hillary will run as the first Black female president,(Bill was the first Black president, just ask him) and Condi will run against her, "44" will win.

As the president's right hand man for almost eight years she will have the experiance to do the job when compared to a first lady that let her president bopp an intern in the oval office restroom.


33 posted on 12/05/2005 4:26:28 AM PST by usmcobra (30 years since I first celebrated The Marine Corps Birthday as a Marine)
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To: chronic_loser; nathanbedford
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a cavalry genius. I understand the "fustest with the mostest" man's tactics are still studied at West Point.

He also didn't speak in the caricaturized manner depicted in the above quote. What he actually said was "get there first with the most men", but that doesn't make for nearly as interesting a story.

80 posted on 12/05/2005 7:34:02 AM PST by tarheelswamprat
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