To: snippy_about_it; SAMWolf
Good morning snippy, SAM, and all the folks in the Foxhole.
Another excellent article (as usual); and one that causes a person to think long and hard about the conflict that George Will once called "the monsoon of our history."
Indeed, it was. Reading it through twice a quote kept occurring to me from one of the major participants at Antietam/Sharpsburg (though he was speaking on the field of another battle in that dreadful war):
"It is good that war is so terrible; we should grow too fond of it..."
--Robert E. Lee (speaking at Fredericksburg, I believe)
Looking forward to the second installment of this story!
-AJC
15 posted on
09/17/2004 4:25:20 AM PDT by
A Jovial Cad
("I had no shoes and I complained, until I saw a man who had no feet.")
To: A Jovial Cad
Thanks AJC. We toured the battlefield today, a beautiful and solemn place.
78 posted on
09/17/2004 4:16:28 PM PDT by
snippy_about_it
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