Notice General Lee's discomfort. But regardless, a battle for local rights, autonomy and freedom against the dead hand of DC tyrants. Today? Where will it end? Your call.
When the Confederacy invaded the North the first time, through Maryland, ending at Sharpsburg and the battle there, General Lee ordered that the troops sing and the bands play, "Maryland, My Maryland" rather than the Bonnie Blue Flag. It was a political statement. "Bonnie Blue Flag was far more popular with the men."
Amen, Padre. I hear these mooks looking forward to "the big igloo" and I wonder what they're thinking. In fact, I don't think they're thinking. I had kin on both sides of that unpleasantness, and some didn't make it. In particular, the experience of six brothers from the Shenandoah Valley may be instructive. Two were KIA, two died of disease in POW camps, and the remaining two both got shot up and also ended up in POW camps, but survived. They then migrated out of Virginia, presumably because after the war criminal Sheridan got done pillaging the Shenandoah, there may not have been anything left to go back to. I have a hard time wrapping my head around any of that sounding like something to look forward to.
Ed: I hope no misunderstanding about the direction of my comment. Not toward you at all. I doubt very much that you're in that big igloo camp with the mooks.
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When the Confederacy invaded the North the first time, through Maryland, ending at Sharpsburg and the battle there, General Lee ordered that the troops sing and the bands play, "Maryland, My Maryland" rather than the Bonnie Blue Flag. It was a political statement. "Bonnie Blue Flag was far more popular with the men."
The situation was complex then, and complex now.
Let me know when the battle starts.
Don't want to miss it.
I'd forgotten that, LL. General Lee was greatness, and an Anglican church warden, I think.
Yes indeed, WSF.
Ed, we're clearly in the cold war stage. Let's pray it doesn't go hot.
Amen, Padre. I hear these mooks looking forward to "the big igloo" and I wonder what they're thinking. In fact, I don't think they're thinking. I had kin on both sides of that unpleasantness, and some didn't make it. In particular, the experience of six brothers from the Shenandoah Valley may be instructive. Two were KIA, two died of disease in POW camps, and the remaining two both got shot up and also ended up in POW camps, but survived. They then migrated out of Virginia, presumably because after the war criminal Sheridan got done pillaging the Shenandoah, there may not have been anything left to go back to. I have a hard time wrapping my head around any of that sounding like something to look forward to.
Ed: I hope no misunderstanding about the direction of my comment. Not toward you at all. I doubt very much that you're in that big igloo camp with the mooks.
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