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Posted on 12/1/15 at 2:48 pm to 18handicap
Posted on 12/1/15 at 2:48 pm to 18handicap
It's not too late to fix past generations' mistakes.
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Posted on 12/1/15 at 2:49 pm to TheDude321
I had no idea LSU had military roots.
Posted on 12/1/15 at 2:53 pm to pvilleguru
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It's not too late to fix past generations' mistakes.
But it's well past time to fix your mistakes.
Posted on 12/1/15 at 2:57 pm to TexAgChill
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I had no idea LSU had military roots.
Well, then brace yourself for when you find out what LSU's official full name is (i.e., Texas A&M may not be the only "A&M" in the FBS).
Posted on 12/1/15 at 3:15 pm to TexAgChill
Posted on 12/1/15 at 3:23 pm to TexAgChill
General William Tecumseh Sherman was LSU's first president until he left to join the Union.
Posted on 12/1/15 at 3:24 pm to TheDude321
Posted on 12/1/15 at 3:25 pm to TexAgChill
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I had no idea LSU had military roots.
You frickin kidding me?
oops double post
This post was edited on 12/1/15 at 3:26 pm
Posted on 12/1/15 at 3:29 pm to ELESHU23
Posted on 12/1/15 at 3:35 pm to TexAgChill
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I had no idea LSU had military roots.
Seriously?
LSU started as a military academy in 1853, officially as:
Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy
The first commandant was none other than...
William Tecumseh Sherman
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In a 24 Dec 1860 conversation with David Boyd, one of his professors at the Louisiana Seminary [which would later become LSU] regarding South Carolina's secession, Sherman is reported to have said:
"You, you the people of the South, believe there can be such a thing as peaceable secession. You don't know what you are doing. I know there can be no such thing. ... If you will have it, the North must fight you for its own preservation. Yes, South Carolina has by this act precipitated war. ... This country will be drenched in blood. God only knows how it will end. Perhaps the liberties of the whole country, of every section and every man will be destroyed, and yet you know that within the Union no man's liberty or property in all the South is endangered. ... Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization. ... You people speak so lightly of war. You don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing. I know you are a brave, fighting people, but for every day of actual fighting, there are months of marching, exposure and suffering. More men die in war from sickness than are killed in battle. At best war is a frightful loss of life and property, and worse still is the demoralization of the people. ...
"You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people, but an earnest people and will fight too, and they are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it.
"Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The Northern people not only greatly outnumber the whites at the South, but they are a mechanical people with manufactures of every kind, while you are only agriculturists--a sparse population covering a large extent of territory, and in all history no nation of mere agriculturists ever made successful war against a nation of mechanics. ...
"The North can make a steam-engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth--right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all els eyou are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.
"At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, and shut out from the markets of Europe by blockade as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. ... if your people would but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail."
LINK
Nailed it.
Posted on 12/1/15 at 3:44 pm to pvilleguru
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He looks really awkward.
Don't you mean aqward?
Posted on 12/1/15 at 3:54 pm to pvilleguru
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It's not too late to fix past generations' mistakes.
Asshat, it's a nickname...not a mistake.
Posted on 12/1/15 at 3:59 pm to pvilleguru
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It's not too late to fix past generations' mistakes.
English spelling wasn't widely standardized in America until the 1870s.
So, technically, it wasn't 'incorrect'.
Posted on 12/1/15 at 4:00 pm to pvilleguru
No arse play? The Aggies told me that was tradition.
Posted on 12/1/15 at 4:09 pm to TDsngumbo
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Who the frick downvoted this?
Go to the OT Board and PoliBoard ... note the liberal leftists socialists communists fricktards.
You'll probably count a total of somewhere around 18.
There are your downvotes.
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