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Old 07-12-2007, 09:56 AM
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Our school actually let us read the whole book. We really got to cover a lot of literature and movies in regular classwork as supplemental learning.


Speaking of which, I think Gettysburg is one of the most under-rated movies out there.
wasn't that movie based on 'the killer angels'? GREAT book!! the turning point of the war.
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Old 07-12-2007, 09:58 AM
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wasn't that movie based on 'the killer angels'? GREAT book!! the turning point of the war.
Yup, I loved the book too. Gettysburg is a great vacation too if you haven't been there!
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Old 07-12-2007, 10:01 AM
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Yup, I loved the book too. Gettysburg is a great vacation too if you haven't been there!
been there several times. folks took us up there a few times. been to manassas/bull run (depending on north or south as to what it was called) vicksburg, pea ridge... some revolutionary war sites too including yorktown, camden s.c. also jamestown, williamsburg. i love history--hope to go to shiloh and antietam. around christmastime they put up luminaries at antietam--one for every casualty of the battle. they said when you see the #, it's huge--but to see all those lights stretched out, it puts things into perspective.
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Old 07-12-2007, 10:10 AM
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been there several times. folks took us up there a few times. been to manassas/bull run (depending on north or south as to what it was called) vicksburg, pea ridge... some revolutionary war sites too including yorktown, camden s.c. also jamestown, williamsburg. i love history--hope to go to shiloh and antietam. around christmastime they put up luminaries at antietam--one for every casualty of the battle. they said when you see the #, it's huge--but to see all those lights stretched out, it puts things into perspective.
That sounds like a really neat place to visit at Christmas.
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Old 07-12-2007, 10:14 AM
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Sightie...






....would you like to get together this weekend?
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Old 07-12-2007, 10:16 AM
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I don't know where you are at...but that's probably a bad place to meet.



I think Diaper may be looking for me.
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Sightie-Poo??
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Old 07-12-2007, 10:46 AM
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I don't know where you are at...but that's probably a bad place to meet.



I think Diaper may be looking for me.
Morty dear, why do you call my very good friend Sniper that?

Sniper and Ms. Sightseek and lovely people.
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Old 07-12-2007, 10:02 AM
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Yup, I loved the book too. Gettysburg is a great vacation too if you haven't been there!
Sightie-Poo....




....I'm beginning to think Diaper and Dispencer are the same person...Dispencer wears the fake Amish beard.



I hope this does not come as a shock.
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