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The House has voted to ban the display of Confederate flags at historic federal cemeteries in the deep South. The low-profile move came Tuesday evening after a brief debate on a measure funding the National Park Service, which maintains 14 national cemeteries, most of which contain graves of Civil War soldiers. The proposal by Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., added language to block the Park Service from allowing private groups to decorate the graves of Southern soldiers with Confederate flags in states that commemorate Confederate Memorial Day. The cemeteries affected are the Andersonville and Vicksburg cemeteries in Georgia and Mississippi. “The...

COMING OUT: Obama’s sudden support of gay marriage, after publicly opposing it throughout his entire political career, may be prompted by a desperate attempt to prevent impending damage from an ongoing criminal investigation which has already produced explosive evidence about his fraudulent identity. Now, based on his bizarre flip-flop, it is probable that irrefutable evidence has been discovered by the investigation…about his own homosexual past.

Unlike the mass of war literature of the period, the following sketch in place of treating of the generals in command is simply a chronicle of passages in the war record of the "rank and file." A humble sergeant, who among the many generous high-spirited young men volunteered in "61" to fight for the perpetuation of the Union, and who through a self-negation equal to Sidney's heroic act, suffered captivity and death in the prison pen at Andersonville. Elias Leon Hyneman, one of the martyrs of our Civil war, was the son of Rebekah Hyneman, a poetess whose position in...

In the early years of the Civil War, prisoners from the North and South were rarely held in prison camps. In many cases, they were often exchanged with POWS from the opposing side. As the war dragged on, the North started holding Confederate prisoners in permanent prisons. The South started to do this too. A Confederate general recommended building a prison is rural Georgia in a location far from the front lines. A prison was established near the small village of Andersonville. It was called Camp Sumter. At its height, as many as 33000 Union prisoners were held on the...

Seymour M. Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter now writing for The New Yorker magazine, was asked Tuesday at the University of Michigan why Sen. John Kerry isn't easily leading the presidential race over George W. Bush when the war in Iraq is going so badly. "I think one thing you have to face up to is the fact there are roughly 70 million people in America who do not believe in evolution - and those are Bush supporters," said Hersh, who is up front about his support for Kerry. Hersh's observations about the presidential campaign, the war in Iraq...

ANDERSONVILLE, GA. -- Andersonville National Historic Site, now run by the National Park Service, has three sections: the prison field where the stockade once stood, a cemetery still burying veterans and the National Prisoner of War Museum, which serves as a memorial to all U.S. prisoners of war throughout the nation's history. ...Southerners tend to wonder why Andersonville bears such a cruel reputation when Northern prisons were also bad. Notably, in the one at Elmira, N.Y., 24 percent of 12,000 Southern prisoners died. At Andersonville, the comparable figure for deaths is 29 percent of its 45,000 Northern prisoners. .... The...

Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. ...................................................................................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. Welcome to "Warrior Wednesday" Where the Freeper Foxhole introduces a different...

Original song by Henry Clay Work(1865) Parody-Update by Coral Snake(2003) MIDI: MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIApiano introduction. 1. Come on all you Terri Troops, give $uncoas$t crooks a song; Sing it in the light of truth, that starts the world along, Sing what should be done to them, unnumbered persons strong, Lock up the execs of $uncoa$t. (CHORUS) Hurray, Hurray, We should Indict today! Hurray, Hurray, Then put them all away! When you aid in murder then in prison you must stay, Lock up the execs of $uncoa$t. 2. Mary thinks that she is god, just hear her boasting sound! She thinks...

Original song by Henry Clay Work(1877) Update-Parody by Coral Snake(2003) George Felos - Death Culture Whackjob No 1 MIDI: KING BIBLERS ARMYbrief piano introduction 1. 'Twas thirteen years ago when Miss Terrisa Schindler Gave here her hand to young Mike Schiavo, For the Schindlers would soon be regretting this marriage, As it was never really a go" Terri, sweet as rosebuds that bloom in the valley; Michael revealed, as a scheeming knave. she's inlisted in, the George Felos Army, Marching to the dehydration grave. CHORUS Hark! hark! George Felos razzes (useless, eaters): I hear the cry of brainwashed masses (useless,...

Original song Lyrics by Patrick S. Gilmore, (1863) Update-Parody by Coral Snake (2003) MIDI: WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME1. Ms. Labyak drives a fancy car, Put them! Away! Because her hand's in the cookie jar. Put them! Away! Part of the plot full of bitter strife, By Michael Schiavo to kill his wife. It is time we put, These felons in orange suits. It is time we put, These felons in orange suits. 2. Now There's George Felos the bearded Ghoul. Put them! Away! Plays a deadly game of dirty pool. Put them! Away! Part of the plot full of...

A Reminiscence of Andersonville Prison by Alice Hyneman Rhine The Menorah, December 1888 Unlike the mass of war literature of the period, the following sketch in place of treating of the generals in command is simply a chronicle of passages in the war record of the "rank and file." A humble sergeant, who among the many generous high-spirited young men volunteered in "61" to fight for the perpetuation of the Union, and who through a self-negation equal to Sidney's heroic act, suffered captivity and death in the prison pen at Andersonville. Elias Leon Hyneman, one of the martyrs of our...