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  • Civil War (From the ruins of Rome)

    08/20/2011 12:25:15 PM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 19 replies
    Sipsey Street Irregulars ^ | August 20, 2011 | none stated
    "As I walked through the ruins of mighty Rome, I saw not only what 2,000 years has done to them, but what 2,000 more years will do to us. What is left of mighty Rome, is a glimpse into our own mortality." -- Ruins of Rome. What a terrible thing, Brother, is a civil war. One week your dominion is at peace, the enemy on all borders has been subdued, the army is draining marshes for farmland and repairing fortifications, the Emperor is satisfied, and the Church is expanding; then with one fell blow, one ill-advised order from on high,...