[stand watie]

let me go a bit farther down that road.=====> i would support the reestablishment of PRIVATE field artillery units like our famed RICHMOND HOWITZERS!!! (to quote a CSA COL,long after the WBTS : "Our brave lads from Richmond city gave BILLY HELL to Billy Yank".)

the reason that there were not more private artillery units in the pre-WBTS period was that it was EXPENSIVE to belong to such a unit. it would be VERY expensive today, but the FREEDOM to HAVE/BE IN such a unit is IMPORTANT, imVho.

furthermore, if i was KING for a day, i would issue EVERY honorably-discharged veteran or retiree a shoulder-fired weapon, revolver or pistol of THEIR CHOICE at ETS, with a;ll the free ammunition that the vet cared to transport to his/her HOR!!! (in about 2-3 years of that policy, NO enemy foreign or domestic would consider attacking us - to attack such a well-armed nation would be SUICIDAL!!!)

free dixie,sw

[zeugma]

furthermore, if i was KING for a day, i would issue EVERY honorably-discharged veteran or retiree a shoulder-fired weapon, revolver or pistol of THEIR CHOICE at ETS, with a;ll the free ammunition that the vet cared to transport to his/her HOR!!! (in about 2-3 years of that policy, NO enemy foreign or domestic would consider attacking us - to attack such a well-armed nation would be SUICIDAL!!!)

LOL. Now there is a government program I could really get behind!