[BartSimpson]

Well, I'll agree that you are likely God damned.

[DanSC]

This thread just went full-retard.

[Thanos]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Well, I'll agree that you are likely God damned.

Oh, snap.

I'll take this as an indication that you just tapped out. Again.

I win the internet for today! Yay me!

[Thanos]

DanSC DanSC:

This thread just went full-retard.

Yeah, but you can't deny it's entertaining when I go into full lead-farmer mode.

[DanSC]

Thanos Thanos:

DanSC DanSC:

This thread just went full-retard.

Yeah, but you can't deny it's entertaining when I go into full lead-farmer mode.

Swap "entertaining" with "boringly predictable" and you'd be right.

[Thanos]

OK. Screw you too then.

[llama66]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Thanos Thanos:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Gettysburg is sacred ground to us.

Which is kind of difficult to believe considering how many of your fellow citizens at any given time are actively trying to undo the main end result of the Civil War, i.e. the states cannot do whatever they want whenever they want in defiance of the federal system.

Maybe the next time I'm in Canada I should go piss on the Cenotaph to make you appreciate how I feel at this moment.

Feel free, but I suspect you'd have some vets that'll want to have a word with you... in a back ally and with a baseball bat.

The United States needs to get over the deep bi-partisanism that has crippled her, otherwise I fear for the future of a great nation.

[Jabberwalker]

$1:

Sarah Palin pronounced on Death Panels and you mocked her. Turns out she was right.

[Gunnair]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Thanos Thanos:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Gettysburg is sacred ground to us.

Which is kind of difficult to believe considering how many of your fellow citizens at any given time are actively trying to undo the main end result of the Civil War, i.e. the states cannot do whatever they want whenever they want in defiance of the federal system.

Maybe the next time I'm in Canada I should go piss on the Cenotaph to make you appreciate how I feel at this moment.

Thanks for the confirmation.

[ShepherdsDog]

if someone were to be hospitalized due to a beating for that act,I`d feel no sorrow. No one suggested an act of desecration at Gettysburg, so the comment is contemptuous

[Gunnair]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

if someone were to be hospitalized due to a beating for that act,I`d feel no sorrow. No one suggested an act of desecration at Gettysburg, so the comment is contemptuous

It's also typical.

[stratos]

DanSC DanSC:

This thread just went full-retard.

Agreed DanSC.

In the mind of trying to bring things back on topic.

Back '98 I went to Gettysburg and spent a full day on the battle field. For me it was like ... well hard to explain. It was such a thrill and a chilling experience knowing so many men died fighting for thier respective causes. I got to walk around to a lot of diffrent areas of the site remembering all that I had read about each place. I even attempted to walk up little round top (what a bitch of a climb) I could not even imagine attempting to storm up it while bullets fireing down on me. A group of school kids were out in the field of Pickets charge. Their tour guide had them do a rebel yell and run towards the cannons that mark the "High tide of the Confedericy" which I happened to be standing at right then. I still get goose bumps thinking about it.

It might sound odd but it was like a day in Heaven for me.

[GreenTiger]

stratos stratos:

DanSC DanSC:

This thread just went full-retard.

Agreed DanSC.

In the mind of trying to bring things back on topic.

Back '98 I went to Gettysburg and spent a full day on the battle field. For me it was like ... well hard to explain. It was such a thrill and a chilling experience knowing so many men died fighting for thier respective causes. I got to walk around to a lot of diffrent areas of the site remembering all that I had read about each place. I even attempted to walk up little round top (what a bitch of a climb) I could not even imagine attempting to storm up it while bullets fireing down on me. A group of school kids were out in the field of Pickets charge. Their tour guide had them do a rebel yell and run towards the cannons that mark the "High tide of the Confedericy" which I happened to be standing at right then. I still get goose bumps thinking about it.

It might sound odd but it was like a day in Heaven for me.

I've been to Gettysburg a number of times. Yes, you do feel a whole range of emotions, at some point though it really hits you that a lot of good people on both sides dies in that three day conflict, it gets emotionally hard then.

I agree the climb up Little Round Top isn't easy in Peace let alone being shot while doing it and when I re-enacted Pickets Charge on a hot July Day I could not imagine doing that under cannon fire.

I prefer to respect both sides even though I think the North was more morally correct.

[Thanos]

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

I prefer to respect both sides even though I think the North was more morally correct.

"I felt like anything rather than rejoicing (after Appomattox) at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse."

Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs

[ShepherdsDog]

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

stratos stratos:

DanSC DanSC:

This thread just went full-retard.

Agreed DanSC.

In the mind of trying to bring things back on topic.

Back '98 I went to Gettysburg and spent a full day on the battle field. For me it was like ... well hard to explain. It was such a thrill and a chilling experience knowing so many men died fighting for thier respective causes. I got to walk around to a lot of diffrent areas of the site remembering all that I had read about each place. I even attempted to walk up little round top (what a bitch of a climb) I could not even imagine attempting to storm up it while bullets fireing down on me. A group of school kids were out in the field of Pickets charge. Their tour guide had them do a rebel yell and run towards the cannons that mark the "High tide of the Confedericy" which I happened to be standing at right then. I still get goose bumps thinking about it.

It might sound odd but it was like a day in Heaven for me.

I've been to Gettysburg a number of times. Yes, you do feel a whole range of emotions, at some point though it really hits you that a lot of good people on both sides dies in that three day conflict, it gets emotionally hard then.

I agree the climb up Little Round Top isn't easy in Peace let alone being shot while doing it and when I re-enacted Pickets Charge on a hot July Day I could not imagine doing that under cannon fire.

I prefer to respect both sides even though I think the North was more morally correct.

moral? Some Union States were also slave states and didn`t bother abolishing slavery for a further two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, which was only made to foment chaos in the confederacy, not a declaration of altruism and acknowledgement of racial quality.

Had the south not attempted to secede, slavery likely would have persisted for a few more generations until mechanization replaced manual labour. The war was never about ending slavery, it was about imposing the legislative supremacy of the federal government over the States.