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The FReeper Foxhole Revisits The Battle of The Little Big Horn - December 3rd, 2004
http://www.cbhma.org/history.shtml ^ | Joe Sills, Jr.

Posted on 12/02/2004 10:24:53 PM PST by snippy_about_it

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To: snippy_about_it

Dear snippy_about_it,I have been there(Custer National Battlefield)twice.It's a MOVING experience!You kind of get the feeling that there are a lot of unhappy spirits there!!The first time I went there,I stuffed a pocket with prairie grass from"Custer Ridge".I have it to this day as I also have sand from Omaha Beach and little pine-cones from The US Cemetery(overlooking Omaha Beach.This was(of course)the location of the 352nd Panzer Grenadiers that so strongly opposed the landings there!!!GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


61 posted on 12/03/2004 11:02:35 AM PST by bandleader
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To: SAMWolf

Dear SAMWolf,As I'm certain you are aware,this is a fanciful rendition!The Indians were not attacking on horseback.They made great use of the series of ravines and hillocks above The Little Big Horn.


62 posted on 12/03/2004 11:05:22 AM PST by bandleader
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To: bandleader

All part of the "Hollywood" version of history.


63 posted on 12/03/2004 11:11:40 AM PST by SAMWolf (I went insane trying to take a close-up picture of the horizon.)
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To: Don W

George A.Custer entered battle on that hot June day encumbered by TWO grave handicaps.The first was that he grossly underestimated the numbers and fighting qualities of his enemies;The second was his lust to regain the celebrity that was once his with Philip Sheridan,and W.T Sherman.


64 posted on 12/03/2004 11:11:51 AM PST by bandleader
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To: Valin
1965 Katarina Witt, Staaken GDR, figure skater (Olympic-Gold-1984, 88)

I still need to take up skating...


65 posted on 12/03/2004 11:14:21 AM PST by Professional Engineer (My clutch foot is tired of Paradigm Shifts. Don't we have automatics yet?)
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To: bentfeather

Hi miss Feather.

Bitty Girl is cutting her first tooth. And she's mobile (ruh roh)


66 posted on 12/03/2004 11:16:10 AM PST by Professional Engineer (My clutch foot is tired of Paradigm Shifts. Don't we have automatics yet?)
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To: Don W

Dear Don W,Actually,there were THREE handicaps!He(Custer)divided his command into four forces.Had they been one(about 8oo strong),they probably wouldn't have prevailed anyway,but they would have had a better chance due to massing of firepower.Custer refused Terry's offer of The Gatling Guns(he thought they would slow his march!!If he had accepted the incumbrance of these weapons,the Indians either would have escaped or Custer,Terry,and Crook(from the south)would have sealed the Indian's fate!!!


67 posted on 12/03/2004 11:17:53 AM PST by bandleader
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To: SAMWolf
No pictures can really do it justice.

Many things seem to hit you this way. Sometimes I don't take photos, because I know they won't do the subject justice.

68 posted on 12/03/2004 11:18:07 AM PST by Professional Engineer (My clutch foot is tired of Paradigm Shifts. Don't we have automatics yet?)
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To: snippy_about_it

Howdy ma'am.

So you guys can move into the store now, right?


69 posted on 12/03/2004 11:20:46 AM PST by Professional Engineer (My clutch foot is tired of Paradigm Shifts. Don't we have automatics yet?)
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To: Grzegorz 246

COOL picture!


70 posted on 12/03/2004 11:22:20 AM PST by Professional Engineer (My clutch foot is tired of Paradigm Shifts. Don't we have automatics yet?)
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To: Professional Engineer
Bitty Girl is cutting her first tooth. And she's mobile

Watch out now!

71 posted on 12/03/2004 11:40:39 AM PST by SAMWolf (I went insane trying to take a close-up picture of the horizon.)
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To: Professional Engineer

Not yet. The inpectors haven't shown up yet. :-(


72 posted on 12/03/2004 11:41:42 AM PST by SAMWolf (I went insane trying to take a close-up picture of the horizon.)
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To: Professional Engineer

Especially some scenery shots.


73 posted on 12/03/2004 11:42:15 AM PST by SAMWolf (I went insane trying to take a close-up picture of the horizon.)
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To: bentfeather

Cute cardinal, thanks feather.


74 posted on 12/03/2004 11:49:02 AM PST by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: stand watie

Hugs.!!!!!


75 posted on 12/03/2004 11:49:25 AM PST by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: Darksheare

Hiya Darksheare.


76 posted on 12/03/2004 11:49:54 AM PST by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: snippy_about_it

Hello.
Got some non-important running around in circles done, finally.
Now the important running in circles is getting done.
And then it's on to more running in circles.
(I just LOVE Fridays, they're more like Mondays for me.)


77 posted on 12/03/2004 11:56:40 AM PST by Darksheare (I have friends, and I have co-conspirators.)
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To: SAMWolf
"now let's see what Putin does."

A. he will try again to steal elections.
B. he will try to start some revolution in eastern Ukraine, which is populated mostly by Russian minority and Russian language Ukrainians and then...
B1 - Russian army will step in and Russia will incorporate this land.
B2 - he will try to create some separatists puppet government in this part of Ukraine.
C. he will do nothing.

My ranking:
I-B2
II-A
III-B1
IV-C
78 posted on 12/03/2004 12:47:40 PM PST by Grzegorz 246
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To: Grzegorz 246

I go with B2 or B.


79 posted on 12/03/2004 1:27:46 PM PST by SAMWolf (I went insane trying to take a close-up picture of the horizon.)
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To: SAMWolf

Hi Sam.


80 posted on 12/03/2004 2:09:26 PM PST by Aeronaut (This is no ordinary time. And George W. Bush is no ordinary leader." --George Pataki)
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