[happygrl]

Wow. I'd like to think that they are enough men who would do the same today, i.e. be prepared to fight as an insurgency for their homes and families.

I had never heard about THAT aspect of the Misslies of October.

[AnAmericanMother]

Well, you know, Southern boys . . . actually, your rural Pennsylvania boys are cut from the same cloth.

Georgia was a little closer to Cuba, though!

Seriously, the guys who came back from WWII were serious about defending their freedom and families. There was some little town in Tennessee right after WWII that was being run by a mob boss and his gang, and when he tried to fix the election all the returned soldiers got together and took over the election process AND the town (and threw the bums out.) There were photos at the time of ex-GIs guarding the ballot boxes with fixed bayonets. They did NOT mess around.

I think you'll find when the chips are down that there are still plenty of those men around. Just not the liberals in the big cities and suburbs.