2018 Buckeye Football Thread
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Ah yes. The war of Northern aggression. Honest question Joe:
How is the Civil War taught down there? With a Southerner point of view, or the standardized history book version? That stuff fascinates me. I loved reading your brief summary.
How is the Civil War taught down there? With a Southerner point of view, or the standardized history book version? That stuff fascinates me. I loved reading your brief summary.
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From my recollection it definitely goes in to more detail around the other factors such as I spoke of above, unlike my nieces history books that I've seen which push one to believe it was 100% about slavery. The biggest difference is there history is all around you. Vicksburg is home to the National Civil war memorial park. I highly recommend everyone stop in there and spend a day if you're even remotely close. You see example all the time regarding things that challenge the "100% about slavery" idea that is pushed today. For example in the courthouse in Vicksburg is the docket where after the war a freed former slave was tried in the courthouse of killing a white man. His former owner returned from the war and told him a story of being tortured and mistreated in a Northern Prison camp by a fellow soldier who was made a guard. The former slave left, found the man, and killed him for retaliation of what he did to his former master. He was found not guilty BTW. Now what would make a former slave do such a thing to avenge his former masters mistreatment.
Or in Natchez you can tour the house of a millionaire black man who before the war owned numerous business and owned slaves himself. The fascinating part is he was a former slave, yet he owned slaves himself. If the narrative about how blacks were treated, and how slaves were beat, is all true, the how did this former slave who was given his freedom well before the war become a millionaire business man who now owned slaves? Doesn't jive with todays public school accounts of the time.
Thee winner always writes the history books. But when you're surrounded by that history you see things that make you question modern "history" . One thing I've never seen these kids school books include while pushing the slavery was the cause ideology is this quote from Lincoln.
"If I could save the union without freeing any slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."
He said this this almost two years in to the war and sure doesn't sound like he started a war over slavery to me.
Thanks for sharing Joe. Like I said, that stuff fascinates me. I would really like to start traveling again in a few years when the kids are older. Im a big fan of history trips and great food, so getting down South is at the top of my list. I'll stop hijacking now[emoji846]
Jezus K Rist..... Fugger still googling shit up? How about looking up how to run a deer contest? Bet it doesn't come back as: "Run yer jib until everyone forgets about it" We have a better chance of getting Mountaineer to act right then we do to find out what our own standings are in our own deer contest.....
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Jezus K Rist..... Fugger still googling shit up? How about looking up how to run a deer contest? Bet it doesn't come back as: "Run yer jib until everyone forgets about it" We have a better chance of getting Mountaineer to act right then we do to find out what our own standings are in our own deer contest.....
Call my ex-wife and ask her how whining and bitching worked for getting me to do something.
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. I'm busy wiring GFCIs and trying to figure out what drunk electrician wired this house. I am looking forward to seeing which Buckeyes show up today. Will it be the Boilermakers bitch team, or the Michigan team.
You ain't doing jack schitt but running your fingers on that phone like you been doing for two days..... and no I'm not bitching I'm stating facts okay fax that I did not have to go Google upCall my ex-wife and ask her how whining and bitching worked for getting me to do something.
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Go Bucks ... with a good dose of history teachings ! I always did cringe when people would say the Civil war was about slavery.
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Facts?
done heard it all now. Just fastened a kids dresser to the wall. Now I'm hitting the shower and heading out to doe hunt with Alex. You can want in one hand and shit in the other, see which one fills up faster. Score ain't gonna change by the time i run the numbers.