re: If you could experience one day from American history... what would it be?

“It’s all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago. For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it’s all in the balance, it hasn’t happened yet, it hasn’t even begun yet, it not only hasn’t begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it’s going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn’t need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago; or to anyone who ever sailed even a skiff under a quilt sail, the moment in 1492 when somebody thought This is it: the absolute edge of no return, to turn back now and make home or sail irrevocably on and either find land or plunge over the world’s roaring rim.”

William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust 1948

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Moon landing.

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In all seriousness, that. Hopefully we'll have the Mars landing in our lifetime.

You Oedipus Rex freak

I would have loved to be in the room when the court decided Miranda v Arizona

Or


Brown v Board of Education

Not to change but to hear the sides in real time argue for and against.



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Whoever the idiot is that downvoted this is either stupid or dumb. Those two decisions have more impact on our lives than any in modern America. They are especially relevant to the discussion and issues that we are having lately.

Now that would be awesome

When the printed newspaper from Ireland that contained basically the Declaration of Independence was delivered to King George.

nvm.

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When the printed newspaper from Ireland that contained basically the Declaration of Independence was delivered to King George.

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I wish I could have been alive the day after the Watergate scandal broke. To see all of America lose faith in their elected leaders would be completely novel to someone from our age that is used to no one trusting any of our elected leaders.

VJ Day would have been cool to witness, especially in NYC or San Fran, or somewhere with a lot of returning troops.

A day on Ken Kesey's Furthur bus would have been fun as hell too.

I've been there and it left me with an extremely uneasy feeling how JFK's assassination had been commercialized. Not so much with the museum, which was really well done, but the whole area around Delay Plaza.


But I guess it's a way to commemorate history.