Sounds fantastic. The boys look curious and happy. Keep up the good work.
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Sounds like a perfect day, thanks for the smile this AM. That right there is what its all about.
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Looks like great outing w a little learning on the side. Great job dad, I bet they are tired of the teacher showing them shit when they just want to have sand, stick and rock wars. Fucking Sargent of Arms won’t let them be boys 
Fast forward 40 years and I see this.
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My oldest Sterling is probably going to cure some kind of cancer or invent a medicine. For years hes said he wants to be a pharmaceutical chemist when he grows up.
My youngest, Pierce, no doubt, he already has the hat too.
I've known since he was a toddler that boy will be all about fast cars and fast women. This is the same kid that on the way home from the zoo we had the typical parent discussion. "What was your favorite animal" Pierce said the ant eater. I asked why and he said "because I want to eat it" The same kid that walked in the living room the other day and said "I like my farts drippy"They're both me through and through. One inherited my polished corporate personality, the other my hell raising son of the south personality.
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Looks like great outing w a little learning on the side. Great job dad, I bet they are tired of the teacher showing them shit when they just want to have sand, stick and rock wars. Fucking Sargent of Arms won’t let them be boys
Sometimes it be like that.
But they did ride in the back of the truck with a bucket of rocks. I'd stop and let them throw rocks at the turtles sunning on logs in the sloughs along the WMA road. I just knew the opossum police were going to come around the curve any minute. The older I get the less I care. Those boys would remember for the rest of their life. "Remember that time dad got a ticket for letting us ride in the back of the truck and throw rocks at turtles"
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Explores with my boys were one of my favorite things to do with them when they were young. I miss it.
Mickey Merrie
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Let nobody ever tell you those ain't your boys!My favorite moment of the day.
Me trying to show the boys something and them being 7 & 9 year old boys just playing.
Me: "If you shut your mouth for a minute the woods will tell you something."
In the silence Pierce let's out a huge fart and says. "It'll tell ya that stinks!
2 mini me's must be fun for you! Thanks for sharing!
Man I loved riding in the back of a pickup when I was kid!! Everyone did it and thought nothing of it. Trucks didn’t even have seat belts back then
You are a great father
You are a great father
Great memories made Joe. Thanks for the smiles while I read this.
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Since deer season I've been telling the boys I would take them back to Vicksburg to visit the Vicksburg Civil War Battlefield Park. It's a pretty neat place with monuments for each state that had a company that fought in the Battle of Vicksburg, as well as very well-preserved and marked battlefields.
General Pemberton for the South was facing General Grant and his underling at the time General Sherman for control of Vicksburg, the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River.
Along the road to Vicksburg, Grant's troops came up against the Confederate Stockade (log wall) Redan (V-shaped earthen works). Twice Sherman and Grant attempted to assault the Stockade Redan resulting in massive Union casualties. Nearly 1,000 casualties on the May 19th assault, then over 50 on a smaller assault by a volunteer group of Union soldiers who tried to sneak over and set up ladders. Defending the Redan were troops from Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri. Upon watching the carnage General Sherman said "This is murder, pull those men back". It was at this time that Grant decided that Vicksburg could not be taken by force and he would lay siege. In short, he surrounded Vicksburg, blockaded it, and for 46 days starved the people of Vicksburg and troops until their eventual surrender.
Here is what the redan looks like from above.
Here is a view from the Union line.
This is just one small part of the park as it traverses the entire Confederate and Union lines but was the scene of the fiercest battles.
As a kid, I ran around and sat on the same cannons on the Redan. The boys and I had fun with our reenactments as they also learned about the battle through roleplay.
We "man the guns and give those yanks what for boys"
"Billy Yank is charging the road Men! To arms on the Redan!"
That's it Men give em what for! "
There were lots of muskets and cannons fired between the big rebel yells echoing across the field.
Much to the confusion of the northern tourists, no doubt retreating snowbirds stopping in on their journey north, the boys and I in their Confederate gray hats put on one hell of a reenactment for them.
It was fun to listen to the boys shoot their muskets and insult the Yanks with lines like Pierce made up and yelled across the battlefield that even got a chuckle out of a couple from Wisconsin... . "7 cannons a day keeps the Yankees away!"
I don't know how it is at Gettysburg, if everything is roped off and untouchable, but at Vicksburg kids and family have been climbing on cannons, running through the trenches, manning the redan, and shooting at Billy Yank for generations. It was great to get the boys out there to learn a little history in a fun and creative way, even if some tourists may have been uncomfortable.
General Pemberton for the South was facing General Grant and his underling at the time General Sherman for control of Vicksburg, the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River.
Along the road to Vicksburg, Grant's troops came up against the Confederate Stockade (log wall) Redan (V-shaped earthen works). Twice Sherman and Grant attempted to assault the Stockade Redan resulting in massive Union casualties. Nearly 1,000 casualties on the May 19th assault, then over 50 on a smaller assault by a volunteer group of Union soldiers who tried to sneak over and set up ladders. Defending the Redan were troops from Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri. Upon watching the carnage General Sherman said "This is murder, pull those men back". It was at this time that Grant decided that Vicksburg could not be taken by force and he would lay siege. In short, he surrounded Vicksburg, blockaded it, and for 46 days starved the people of Vicksburg and troops until their eventual surrender.
Here is what the redan looks like from above.
Here is a view from the Union line.
This is just one small part of the park as it traverses the entire Confederate and Union lines but was the scene of the fiercest battles.
As a kid, I ran around and sat on the same cannons on the Redan. The boys and I had fun with our reenactments as they also learned about the battle through roleplay.
We "man the guns and give those yanks what for boys"
"Billy Yank is charging the road Men! To arms on the Redan!"
That's it Men give em what for! "
There were lots of muskets and cannons fired between the big rebel yells echoing across the field.
Much to the confusion of the northern tourists, no doubt retreating snowbirds stopping in on their journey north, the boys and I in their Confederate gray hats put on one hell of a reenactment for them.
It was fun to listen to the boys shoot their muskets and insult the Yanks with lines like Pierce made up and yelled across the battlefield that even got a chuckle out of a couple from Wisconsin... . "7 cannons a day keeps the Yankees away!"
I don't know how it is at Gettysburg, if everything is roped off and untouchable, but at Vicksburg kids and family have been climbing on cannons, running through the trenches, manning the redan, and shooting at Billy Yank for generations. It was great to get the boys out there to learn a little history in a fun and creative way, even if some tourists may have been uncomfortable.
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Ohio has quite a few monuments through the park also as there were a couple ohio units there.
