kfaulk03

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Seeing this number of casualties and it being the bloodiest battle of the revolutionary war really puts into perspective how small of a war it was manpower wise.

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There were a whole lot less people back then in general. Vs the population size it was a HUGE loss.

In the 1860s, the largest Southern cities by population were:
New Orleans, LA: 168,675
Charleston, SC: 40,522
Richmond, VA: 37,910
Mobile, AL: 29,258
Memphis, TN: 22,623
Savannah, GA: 22,292
Petersburg, VA: 18,266
Nashville, TN: 16,988
Norfolk, VA: 14,620
Wheeling, VA: 14,083 (Note: West Virginia was part of Virginia until 1863)

Dairy farmer basically has a milk fountain like you’d refill a coke at a fast food place cooled and everything. Insert coins into machine and put bottle underneath tap. Also has his eggs and potatoes with a coin box trust system nailed to the wall. I like it, it feels wholesome and neighborly anyway. It’s not even a hippy place, just a normal farmer doing his thing.

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Have you ever been to a dermatologist? The same people who inject Botox, lip filler, and prescribe something akin to bleach for "sun spots"?

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lol true these people shouldn’t be dictating best practice.

At least it seems the “sunscreen is only good” stage is over and now it’s a bit more cover up if one prefers to minimize exposure. I wear sunscreen at times to avoid a real burn, but I’m in no delusion that spraying a petroleum product all over my skin is not a “wonder paste” and no harm like it was made out to be years ago.

Hawthorne had a great radio voice. You could picture the lights on in tiger stadium or bertman slow walking to the mound. Blair (and others, some of the other SEC games broadcasted on TV for example are absolute bores) sounds like he is commenting on like a midweek film scout report.

The F 35 program will cost us $1.6 trillion. This argument just doesn’t hold any water whatsoever.

That’s more than every country in the world combined spends annually.

This defense was also so historically bad so as to warrant a mass firing. How did we build and allow it to happen to literally field a division II defense?

Hopefully posted already. The comparison is clear.

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The Vietnam War is the most misunderstood event in American history. 1. we actually won the war militarily when we forced the North Vietnamese to sign the Paris Peace Accords. 2. The Tet Offensive was nowhere near a “turning point” in favor of North Vietnam. What it actually was, was one of the most disastrous defeats for the Communist during the war. The Viet Cong was completely destroyed as a cohesive military force. Following Tet, the North was forced to cannibalize NVA formations to fill out the Viet Chong’s ranks. This was no easy feat considering every single NVA division that was committed to the Tet Offensive was themselves almost bled white. 3. The South Vietnamese Army was actually quite effective. Following the unmitigated disaster of Tet in 1968, it took the North four years to rebuild enough combat strength to once again go on the offensive. In the Spring of 1972 the North launched what is known as the Easter Offensive. By that time almost all US Ground forces had left Vietnam. The task of stopping the North this time fell mostly on South Vietnamese ground forces with some American air cover. The fighting lasted until October 1972 when the North, after suffering gargantuan losses in men and material, halted their offensive. The South had stood on its own. It would take North Vietnam three years to recover. 4. Beginning in 1973, the US Congress began cutting all aid to South Vietnam. While the US was turning its back on its ally, the Soviets were at that same time pouring massive amounts of military supplies and material into North Vietnam. By 1975, the NVA was rebuilt (for a third time) and ready to go on the offensive. The South by then was in dire straits thanks to Congress cutting off all aid. Its military was denied the weapons, ammo, spare parts, and fuel it needed. Thus, when the North invaded again in Spring of 1975, the South didn’t stand a chance.

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Absolute utter nonsense.

Hamburger hill and the likes came from a poorly defined focus and metrics for what success would even mean. The fall of Saigon is not how you would picture military victory.

It was defeat in VIETNAM - not South Carolina, or Mexico or Canada or the port of New Orleans. We sent our sons, disproportionately the poor from the south, to kill rice peasants, engage in chemical warfare on our own, peasants, and the enemy in agent orange, bomb non-combatants and stunningly beautiful Laos and Cambodia, and create a landmine disaster that would main more poor peasants in fields for decades to come.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Also you can get a masters in architecture and only be like one year behind the bachelors of 5 years in architecture so I thought I might as well do that instead of spending 75hrs in the studio at 18 years old and having a social life.

Lastly, that undergraduate time requirement will undoubtedly detract from your other classes and interests. So if you want a well-rounded classical education, it will be very difficult fitting that in.

I wonder if for a female jogging if a mountain lion is actually the higher probability risk. They tend to hit u from behind, are attracted to a running movement, and a 115lb woman would have a tough go.