How is there not a discussion about the Blue Jays Epic loss today?

@wheatbeer:

@Linkon:

I would not like to tell these future grandchildren that my generation allowed a bunch of communist to chaotically divide yet another country as they took over.  That would be a sorry excuse for them not growing up here in the USA.

Can you explain what these comments have to do with the Confederate flag?

The division of the USA is a grave matter. 
Painful for the citizens in the 1860’s.

Painful for the free world in the 2010’s.

The former confederate flag is but one aspect of how the harmony of our union, is getting disrupted.  A house divided, can soon crumble.

That line might work on the ladies, but I am not sure you will get many takers here.

That  Masurian Lakes photo is absolutely haunting.

It is remarkable how many sea battles have proved more important and lasting than land ones.
Unlike you Cromwell,  I have  always favoured the Infantry slogging it out.

@Cromwell_Dude:

What would you have done had you been Hood or another general in the West?

If I was Hood I would have shadowed Sherman deep into Georgia and attempted to counter attack him near Savannah while his supply lines were at his longest.

@wittmann:

There was no mark on his body

Not on the outside…which of course was all that mattered in those pre-CSI days.  One has to admire the cleverness of the assassins, cringe-worthy as their methodology was.

Kitchener appeared unnamed in that iconic “Britons – [his picture] Wants You” WWI recruitment poster, with the result that more people today may be familiar with his face than with his name.

Another behind-the-times general was Vladimir Sukhomlinov, who served as Russia’s Minister of War until 1915.  I’ve heard that, while he held that post, he believed that he had learned everything there was to know about war in a cavalry charge he had led against the Turks during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, and that he was allegedly proud of the fact that he had not read a military textbook in 25 years.

This is the last day for the Alamo letter to be on display. The famous letter written by Will Travis 177 years ago has returned to the Alamo for the first time since it was sent out. It has been on display from the 24th of Feb. thru March 7th. I saw it on displayed on live video like some kind of shrine. There appears to be constant security right there with it at all times. I did not know that the letter still existed.