And in the last while some horrors have been prevented. Just after I moved up here, Disney had a big push to put a theme park just west of the Manassas Battlefield. I can just imagine the battle of Manassas being given the Disney treatment. Now that would be classic revisionism.
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sadly...you see that a lot with buildings and objects of historical and > cultural significance. I am glad to see that in the past few decades, we > have become more aware of these places and have gone to greater lengths to > try and preserve them. > > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 9:46 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Obama approves assassination of American citizen > > > Nice! In the remains of the building owned by Lucy Washington, you can > see where bullets hit the house. The house burned down after the Civil > War and when they built the golf course in 1991, they were going to > tear down the remaining structure, but some locals fought it and got > it made a historical landmark to save it - I for one am glad they did. > > Oddly enough, it was not until a few years ago that the remaining > walls (parts of two adjacent walls that make am L shape) were actually > incorporated into the tee box (the tee box is inside the walls now). > Before that, the walls were just surrounded by weeds and overgrown > grass. > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I just have to go about a mile and I'm on the Manassas Battlefield. >> there are remains of civil war forts and redoubts through the area. >> There are a few buildings left over from that time period though - >> most were burned or otherwise destroyed during the Civil War. One >> place still has a cannonball embedded in the wall. >> >> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Yea - Antietam is not far and Harper's Ferry (some say John Brown's >>> raid on Harper's Ferry was the 'unofficial' start of the Civil War) is >>> the next town over. >>> >>> Also, the town I live in has some colonial history as well. Charles >>> Town was named after Charles Washington (George's brother) and the >>> 12th tee of the golf course I live on has the remnants of a home owned >>> by Lucy Washington (George's niece). The clubhouse at the golf course >>> also has a display of Civil War items (bullets, rifle parts, etc) from >>> a battle that took place on the property. >>> >>> The kids are getting interested in history, so I really need to brush up. >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> > wrote: >>>> >>>> Actually where you live, you're not too far from Phillipi or the other >>>> sites at the start of the Civil War. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I may be wrong, but I thought that slavery did nto become an issue in >>>>> the Civil War until after the Emancipation Proclamation - which, if >>>>> memory serves me correctly - only freed the slaves in the states that >>>>> had seceded. >>>>> >>>>> I also remember being taught that the _start_ of the Civil War was >>>>> based on socio-economic issues between North and South (I am not sure >>>>> if slavery falsl into that category or not). >>>>> >>>>> Not claiming any of this as fact - just trying to remember from >>>>> history class. (You would think, with where I live now, I would be >>>>> more up on Civil War history - I do plan to rectify that, though) >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Medic <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> C'mon Larry, everyone knows that civil war was about healthcare and > not >>>>>> becoming socialist. It had nothing to do with slavery, which by the > way >>>>>> wasn't really slavery, it was simply an inequality in the pay > structure for >>>>>> black workers. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Larry C. Lyons > <[email protected]>wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Nice bit of historical revisionism there. Lets see after that are you >>>>>>> going to rewrite the history of the Civil War, like the latest >>>>>>> Republican darling Virginia governor McDonnell has done? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/07/AR2010040705 > 100.html?sub=AR >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > I don't remember anyone calling him soft on terror, I do remember > many >>>>>>> > calling Bush evil. Obama is just continuing with the Bush strategy > and >>>>>>> > getting called a hero. >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > You mention drone attacks as a signal Obama is tougher on terror > than >>>>>>> > Bush but is it that simple? Is the bombing helping or making things >>>>>>> > worse. Could we have done more bombings two years ago? >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > Seems to me it's an illusion, step up bombing, keep the wars going > but >>>>>>> > make nice with terrorists and beg them to be nice. It's not > working, >>>>>>> > the whole "The world will stop hating us" plan failed. Now the >>>>>>> > question is what's next, does he have a plan B or will he just keep > up >>>>>>> > with the Bush policies? >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Judah McAuley > <[email protected]> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> >> Certainly a ballsy move, though if what has been said about this >>>>>>> >> particular guy is true, it seems like the order would naturally > follow >>>>>>> >> given what else the admin has done. Amazing to think that there > have >>>>>>> >> been more CIA missile strikes in Obama's first year in office than > in >>>>>>> >> the last 3 years of Bush's tenure combined. I'm not entirely sure > that >>>>>>> >> the people we are involving ourselves with in Afghanistan, > Pakistan >>>>>>> >> and Yemen (to name a few) are entirely the wisest choice but I'm >>>>>>> >> astounded that people can actually think that the Obama admin is > "soft >>>>>>> >> on terror". >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:315313 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
