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To: Pharmboy

No. It was a pressure cooker like we have today and something finally set it off, but the anger and emotions that drove the war were decades in the making, just like today.

I see today as Yosemite Sam in the bowels of the ship full of barrels of gun powder and he’s got a lit match; no one knows which barrel is going off first but we know one will.


29 posted on 05/11/2013 9:31:27 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: CodeToad

One of my distant ancestors was a cousin of Ethan Allen who was a British reservist. He wrote an angry letter to Ethan Allen complaining that he had been “Politely ordered” to take his Govt issued firearm to a newly built armory.

The British explained that indians were no longer a viable threat in his area so he didn’t need to keep the firearm in his home but they still expected him to show up if called to fight.

He did turn in the British issued weapon but said he would refuse to fight for people who felt that he had no need to protect his own and he also insinuated that he was still able to protect his farm if need be.


33 posted on 05/11/2013 9:46:53 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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