Posted on 06/30/2005 1:20:09 AM PDT by SAMWolf
Hubba, hubba!
Found this on the blogosphere . . . funny . . .
"During a 1991 literary festival in Nashville, Foote encountered one enthusiastic fan as he, Garrett and novelist Fred Chappell stood in the lobby of their hotel.
" A woman rushed up to Shelby and planted a kiss on his cheek. Then she said, 'What was Gettysburg like?' " Garrett recalled. "By that time, Shelby had gotten tired of explaining that he hadn't been there. So he just looked at her and said, 'Madam, it was hell.' "
Thanks, Snippy. General Joe's story is a nice metaphor for how the country came back together after that terrible war.
There's a story about Wheeler atttending a 100th anniversary gathering of West Point Alumni circa 1904. As fightin' Joe approached a group of former Confederate officers, he was greeted by none other than General James Longstreet. "Joe, I hope I die before you do, for I want to be at he gates of Hell to hear Jubal Early cuss you for wearing that blue uniform!".
Works for me!
LOL. Thanks for sharing with us.
Good evening feather.
Good evening EGC. We'll send up a prayer for your father's surgery tomorrow. ((Hugs))
Evening, snippy, how you doing these days??
I'm doing fine thanks. The store is doing well, moving onward and upward, more folks finding out we are here. The weather is wonderful and I never tire of hanging out with Sam. Life is good.
You're welcome.
050629-N-8213G-246 Pacific Ocean (June 29, 2005) - An EA-6B Prowler, assigned to the "Vikings" of Electronic Attack Squadron One Two Nine (VAQ-129), launches from the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Reagan is currently underway in the Pacific Ocean conducting carrier qualifications for various West coast Fleet Replacement Squadrons. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Konstandinos Goumenidis (RELEASED)
050628-N-8772M-003 Kauai, Hawaii (June 28, 2005) - A U.S. Marine assigned to 3rd Assault Amphibious Battalion, 1st Marine Division, fires his M-16 rifle as he simulates a hostile combatant on the beaches of the Pacific Missile Range Facility, on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. The 3rd Assault Amphibious Battalion, 1st Marine Division, is currently embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5). U.S. Navy photo by Journalist 2nd Class Johnny Michael (RELEASED)
I can just see bitty girl dancing to this and throwing PE's socks all around. LOL.
When he was not in the field, Wheeler found time to write a new Confederate cavalry manual. Among the first to recognize that the day of the mounted charge was over, he advised troopers to ride to battle but fight on foot. That was a lesson many officers had still not learned 50 years later.
As I recall John Buford had the same idea.
Bedford Forrest was the master of this tactic. In fact, every fourth man in Forrest's Brigade was designated as "horse holder".
So newspaper editors criticized Wheeler. He told Bragg:
"I hear from many sources it should be said that they did not like you as a commander," Wheeler wrote Bragg. "I have been serenaded twice in the past few days by Pensacola troops who said they had come to hunt up Genl. Bragg's friends . . . They said the only enemies you had were a few bad Generals and some newspaper editors. They might have included a few soldiers who had been misinformed and influenced by designing men."
One of the editors to whom Wheeler referred was L.J. Dupre of the Atlanta Register. On February 25, 1864 Dupre wrote Bragg,
I was influenced, I must confess, in all that I have written of you to a greater extent than I should have been by the whispered slanders of your enemies. I could not escape this influence, General. It filled the very atmosphere of all newspaperdom. All sorts of influences were brought to bear upon the press I control. My opinions of your generalship were fixed by these influences, but I was misled. I have since learned that I did you injustice. I shall find an occasion to make amends worth more than this tendered apology.
The press is against the current War on Terror as it is against the current president hence it is against the nation.
I had the misfortune to stumble upon Shep Smith on Fox News Channel today and at his fifth iteration of the emetic euphemism "militant" emailed him to quit sucking up to terrorists.
His minions at the keyboard responded with audible shrieks, flailing at me with their purses.
I had then to expound and to include Roger Ailes and a host of others in the CC field:
Per Webster's, a terrorist is one who systematically uses terror, especially as a means of coercion, while a militant is one engaged in combat.Some journalists persist in labelling car bombers, truck bombers, homicide bombers, and other attackers of civilians with the euphemism militant, when terrorist is the accurate term.
This subjective linguistic propaganda serves to legitimize the enemy who daily murders tens of innocent civilians, and serves to enoble that which declares itself the enemy of civilization. See appropriate fatwas by Osama bin Laden, et al.
The term terrorist is applied by the State Department to such groups as Hamas which is a creation of Iran which provides fighters, training and equipment for the "insurgents" in the current War on Militancy--no, Terrorism.
Iran and Syria are providing terrorists whose modus operandi is not combat per se, but terrorism, e.g., car bombs, truck bombs, bomb vests, improvised explosive devices.
The term insurgent carries the implication of a domestic revolution rather than a foreign-manipulated interference, read aggression.
Militant conjures up images of Mark Rudd and Students for a Democratic Society which morphosized into the terrorist Weathermen organization conducting terror campaigns using bombs, not protests or placards.
Reuters and BBC persist in eschewing terrorist as does CNN which has confessed to covering up the truth of Saddam Hussein's mass murder, ditto Al-Jazeera, the megaphone of terrorists.
We are engaged--at least according to our Commander in Chief--in a War on Terror, not a war on militancy, hence, to all but the aforementioned terrorist enablers, our enemies are terrorists, not militants.
Of course critics on the Left were aghast that Ronald Reagan termed the Soviet Union the Evil Empire, no matter the aptness of the label.
The Left remains adamant that militants are ubiquitous and terrorists exist only in the ravings of their bete noires the neocons, thus granting terrorists legitimacy via linguistic airbrushing, Propaganda 101.
Of course Fox employees gave to Democrats over Republicans by orders of magnitude, which is widely reflected beyond the glow of Brit Hume, Fred Barnes, Sean Hannity.
The aid and comfort from the Left for the current enemy pours without stint from the cornucopia of liberal compassion for perverts and revulsion at virtue. Viz. the Howard:
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