The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Bombardment of Fort Sumter(4/12/1861) - Oct 9th, 2003

http://www.civilwarhome.com/CMHsumter.htm ^

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hi Snippy, I'm very happy about Arnold. I just had a busy, busy day.

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL! I guess so.

[Jen]

Hey Victoria. Sorry you're having a not-so-great day. Maybe this will help lift your spirits.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Awwww, thank you, thank you, Jen. I feel OK now.

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[SAMWolf]

Hi Jen, Love the graphic.

[Jen]

Hey Sam and Snippy! How are you doing? I need to get over to the Foxhole more often. I haven't been around FR very much lately and when I do get online, I tend to hang out on the Poetry thread where most of my buds congregate. I do read your pings though, so don't drop me from the ping list. You two are doing such a great job with the Foxhole. Thanks for all your work and support of our troops and veterans.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Jen, it keeps us busy.

Nice to see everyone have someplace to hang out again. Been a long time.

[PhilDragoo]

Our friends the Holzers gave us an F-16 pin from their California trip. I trust the exhaust cracks have been addressed.

I'd asked our Air Force friend whose reply was a cryptic affirmative.

[PhilDragoo]

french response to Cubicle Ninja ultimatum

[PhilDragoo]

Gen. William T. Sherman's troops advancing north from Savannah, however, caused the Confederate troops to be withdrawn, and Fort Sumter was evacuated on February 17, 1865.

Oh, but Sherman was reviled, and is, to this day.

As the Italian villagers would lynch the downed American aircrews.

Why, they wrecked havoc on their structures, killed their families.

So it is the business of war to break things and kill people until the enemy surrenders.

Lee saw four years of war ahead at the beginning.

In the end, when all has been said about concentration of this and center of gravity of that, it is about will.

What began with the exchanges between gentlemen was ended with the treaty signed by gentlemen.

Betwixt it was--what else--hell.

From Robert Anderson's 18 April 1861 dispatch after boarding the steamship Baltic:

"Having defended Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours, until the quarters were entirely burned, the main gates destroyed by fire, the gorge walls seriously injured, the magazine surrounded by flames, and its door closed from the effects of heat, four barrels and three cartridges of powder only being available, and no provisions remaining but pork, I accepted terms of evacuation offered by General Beauregard, being the same offered by him on the 11th instant, prior to the commencement of hostilities, and marched out of the fort Sunday afternoon, the 14th instant, with colors flying and drums beating, bringing away company and private property, and saluting my flag with fifty guns."

INTERIOR VIEW OF FORT SUMTER
March 1865

[PhilDragoo]

1967 Che Guevara executed in Bolivia

On October 9, 1967, Bolivian forces executed Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara, and amputated his hands for identification.

There's a french book out claiming he's not dead in this photo, and kept giggling when the Bolivian officer poked him.

Just another hoax created by the American cowboys.

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning PhilDragoo.

Nice pin, I have an A-10 pin I picked up at an Airshow. My kind of plane low, slow and ugly.

[SAMWolf]

LOL! I loce it.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the pictures of Sumter. It took a hell of a beating didn't it.

[SAMWolf]

Another terrorist worshiped by the American left.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Darksheare]

Dimensional Doors thread, Ask Sam about the 'weird thread'?

[Darksheare]

Someone would always leave notes that said "Don't touch this".
I'd always leave replies that said "I touched it, nothin happened, is that right?"

[Darksheare]

The Cubicle Ninja takes noprisoners!
(What would he do with them anyway?)
*Chuckle*
Thanks, I love it!

[snippy_about_it]

Thank you Jen.