The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 1862 - June 29th, 2003

http://www.nps.gov/frsp/fredhist.htm ^ | A. Wilson Green, staff historian Fredericksburg National Military Park

[Victoria Delsoul]

I'm going out now, so see you later this evening.

Be good.

[SAMWolf]

LOL! It means I'm hardly working. ;-)

[SAMWolf]

I'll try but you know me I get in to trouble no matter what I do.

[SAMWolf]

Our Military Today
82nd Airborne

A U.S. soldier talks with Iraqi man outside Baghdad's largest holy mosque on Friday, June 13, 2003. In Baghdad, soldiers from the Fort Bragg, N.C.-based 82nd Airborne Division said they had been invited to 'clean up' the area outside a mosque housing the tomb of Imam Mousa Kazim, a revered Shiite saint. Soon after their arrival in mid-June, the bustling commercial area became the most intensive theater of spontaneous interaction between U.S. troops and ordinary Iraqis in Baghdad. (AP Photo/ Mikhail Metzel)


Two Iraqi women pass along an U.S. M-1 Abram tank after the prayers at the Baghdad's largest holy mosque on Friday, June 13, 2003.


U.S. PFC Ian Mason, Michigan, talks with Iraqi people after the prayer outside Baghdad's largest mosque on Friday, June 13, 2003


US forces from the 82nd Airborne, raiding a Baghdad neighborhood, admire a nickel-plated AK-47 which was found inside a closet of an Iraqi resident on Wednesday, June 18, 2003, the 4th day of 'Operation Desert Scorpion' aimed at searching for weapons and rooting out insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq. The operation so far has netted about 400 Iraqis and confiscated scores of weapons. (AP Photo/Ali Haider)


An Iraqi resident scratches his head as Specialist Kevin Miller from Clearwater, MN and with the 82nd Airborne seizes an AK-47 found inside a cabinet during a raid dubbed 'Operation Desert Scorpion' Wednesday June 18, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Ali Haider)


An Iraqi resident questions the seizing of his assault rifle by Specialist Kevin Miller from Clearwater, MN and with the 82nd Airborne during a raid dubbed 'Operation Desert Scorpion' Wednesday, June 18, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq


US soldiers from the 82nd Airborne joke with Iraqi children as they guard a neighborhood in Baghdad while their colleagues are conducting a raid, Wednesday, June 18, 2003 in Iraq


Specialist Kevin Miller from Clearwater, MN and with the 82nd Airborne is ushered into a room as a child sleeps during a raid conducted by his unit at a Baghdad neighborhood in Iraq Wednesday June 18, 2003.


Specialist Kevin Miller from Clearwater, MN and with the 82nd Airborne enters a room to search for weapons during a raid conducted by his unit at a Baghdad neighborhood Wednesday June 18, 2003 in Iraq

[snippy_about_it]

Dangerous work. Thanks SAM for the pics of our troops.

[PhilDragoo]

[SAMWolf]

Good Evevning PhilDragoo.

Excellent pictures of the Frederick's battlefield. What a great defensive position. Hard to believe the Union Generals just kept throwing troops frontally at it.

[snippy_about_it]

Good stuff Phil, thanks.

[snippy_about_it]

Good night SAM. Give it a minute to load.

[SAMWolf]

Good Night Snippy.

Righteous Brothers Soul and Inspiration. Great slow dancing song.

[snippy_about_it]

Great slow dancing song.

hmmm. I should try to find that on cd. ;)

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for keeping us informed, Sam.

[HiJinx]

Well, now, the more things change the more they stay the same. Phil, look at the bridge in your post and contrast it with this one, built 140 years later:

A new bridge over the Tigris River sits nearly complete. Several Marine, Navy and Army units participated in building the 762-foot-long bridge, which opened June 28, 2003 in Zubaydiyah, Iraq. Photo by: Army Staff Sgt. David Bennett

[Victoria Delsoul]

Great graphics, Phil. Thanks so much.

[SAMWolf]

A pontoon bridge is a pontoon bridge.

Steel instead of wood but things haven't changed all that much have they?

[SAMWolf]

You're welcome. Been getting a little slck in those duties. :-(

[HiJinx]

I guess (mechanical) engineers are kinda like old dogs...

[SAMWolf]

Of course it helps to have heavy equipment to help move the sections in place. :-)

[HiJinx]

There is that...didn't the engineers of old use horses and mules?

[SAMWolf]

Probably, but I don't think they lasted too long trying to build one under fire.