God save our country
To Appomattox Court House
“A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.”
– Robert E. Lee
Parapet
“I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything? ”
– Abraham Lincoln in response to General McClellan.
Charge!
“My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none.”
– ‘Fighting’ Joe Hooker
On the Line
“General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys? ”
Surprised
“I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.”
– William Tecumseh Sherman
Forging the Bond
“Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.”
– Last words of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Barrage
“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.”
– Nathan Bedford Forrest
The Forgotten Veteran Week at TechnoChitlins
“It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it.”
Doing something different. In these times, it is politically incorrect to recall a certain class of Veterans, those who served for the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War. This is my small remembrance of these men, who are a part of my heritage, regardless of how the political winds blow.
It’s Memorial Day. Remember all of them. In a lost and wrong-headed cause, they gave their all.
Common Sense
An sensible explanation of the difference between e-cigs and cigarettes…
Vaping has allowed both my wife and myself, smokers since the Sixties, to completely abandon cigarettes and all the nastiness associated with them. Naturally, the government wants to regulate them out of existence and the nanny-staters are in lockstep.
There’s a new brand of Puritanism sweeping this country and we will all suffer because of it. The anti-vapers are but one aspect.
See my original post on this subject here. I know this hits home to many of you, as that post remains one of the most popular I’ve ever done.
vid via Instapundit