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re: If you could experience one day from American history... what would it be?
Posted on 7/10/16 at 11:59 am to Sancho Panza
Posted on 7/10/16 at 11:59 am to Sancho Panza
That's pretty cool.
I got one for you too.
My ever so great grandfather was a militia general(Elijah Clarke) in the Georgia Militia.
Clarke County, Ga where Athens and UGA is,is named after him.
Just pretty neat when your ancestors were war heroes
I got one for you too.
My ever so great grandfather was a militia general(Elijah Clarke) in the Georgia Militia.
Clarke County, Ga where Athens and UGA is,is named after him.
Just pretty neat when your ancestors were war heroes
This post was edited on 7/10/16 at 12:06 pm
Posted on 7/10/16 at 12:11 pm to Lordofwrath88
“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
William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust 1948
This post was edited on 7/10/16 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 7/10/16 at 5:23 pm to Lordofwrath88
The night I was conceived.
Posted on 7/10/16 at 5:24 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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Moon landing.
In all seriousness, that. Hopefully we'll have the Mars landing in our lifetime.
Posted on 7/10/16 at 6:52 pm to OMLandshark
JFK in '63.
I would hang out on the grassy knoll looking for a second shooter.
If nothing showed up I would try to greet Oswald as he was leaving the book depository.
After that I would tail jack Ruby. Looking for clues to everything.
I would hang out on the grassy knoll looking for a second shooter.
If nothing showed up I would try to greet Oswald as he was leaving the book depository.
After that I would tail jack Ruby. Looking for clues to everything.
Posted on 7/10/16 at 7:40 pm to JamalSanders
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June 6th, 1944
Ditto.
Posted on 7/10/16 at 8:42 pm to MrMojoRisin
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.
ETA:
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.
Or
Brown v Board of Education
Not to change but to hear the sides in real time argue for and against.
ETA:
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.
This post was edited on 7/11/16 at 9:46 am
Posted on 7/11/16 at 12:41 pm to Lordofwrath88
Moon Landing
JFK Assasination
JFK Assasination
Posted on 7/11/16 at 12:44 pm to parrothead
Now that would be awesome
Posted on 7/11/16 at 12:55 pm to Lordofwrath88
When the printed newspaper from Ireland that contained basically the Declaration of Independence was delivered to King George.
Posted on 7/11/16 at 2:02 pm to Lordofwrath88
Roommate and I were talking about how awesome it would be (And how much it would be worth per trip) to just be able to observe historic events. Like a time machine, but no one can knows you're there, and you can't interact at all. Can't imagine just watching the D-Day invasion, what the 300 battle actually was like, etc.
As for the OP, actually experiencing the event makes it harder. Probably have to agree with moonlanding.
As for the OP, actually experiencing the event makes it harder. Probably have to agree with moonlanding.
Posted on 7/11/16 at 2:03 pm to Wtodd
nvm.
quote:
When the printed newspaper from Ireland that contained basically the Declaration of Independence was delivered to King George.
Posted on 7/11/16 at 2:52 pm to Lordofwrath88
I've always thought it would be really cool to spend some time in the south pacific during the war in between battles. Like just hanging out on a carrier or some shite. Just seems like that would be an incredible thing to experience first hand while being able to place it all in context
This post was edited on 7/11/16 at 2:55 pm
Posted on 7/11/16 at 3:32 pm to Lordofwrath88
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.
Posted on 7/11/16 at 3:42 pm to cardboardboxer
Watergate was not an instant thing. It was a year long thing. ABSCAM was dirtier than Watergate in some respects. Iran-Contra was as well.
This post was edited on 7/11/16 at 3:44 pm
Posted on 7/11/16 at 3:46 pm to Lordofwrath88
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.
A day on Ken Kesey's Furthur bus would have been fun as hell too.
Posted on 7/11/16 at 3:48 pm to cjared036
On Saturday I went to the 6th floor museum in Dallas, which is at the book depot building. It was really cool! I highly recommend it to anyone visiting Dallas. I definitely understand why you'd want to look for clues. There are way too many crazy facts about it all like Oswald's connections to the Soviets and Ruby with the mob for there not to have been something going on. There's a view of the vantage point Oswald used and an X on the ground where JFK was shot. It's a neat place.
Posted on 7/11/16 at 4:09 pm to AggieDub14
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.
But I guess it's a way to commemorate history.
Posted on 7/11/16 at 4:11 pm to The Spleen
Historical significance leads to tourism which causes the commercializing
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