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Can any good brothers from Maine or Alabama confirm to me the source of this quote, said to be found in a book written by Joshua Chamberlain. An Amazon review says this is found on page 21 in the book, but a search of other internet links does not mention this letter as much as one would imagine. Here is the Amazon quote/review: A letter written to Chamberlain...by a Confederate combatant of the 15th Alabama Regiment which assaulted Little Round Top on July 2...is astonishing(p.21).The former rebel soldier simply states that he COULD HAVE SHOT CHAMBERLAIN TWICE during the battle...

Sick of Islamic intimidation and calls for "hate speech" laws to silence our last remaining free press? Great, if you have a joke, cartoon, or poem this contest making the rounds in the blogosphere is a way to fight the sword with the pen ---- Undisclosed location, USA) -- In support of the 12 Danish cartoonists whose families are now living in hiding under the threat of death from Islamic radicals, laughyourheadoff.org is announcing the Asma b'Marwan Poetry Prize as part of its ongoing International Islamic Cartoon Contest. "We're launching this literary contest to bring attention to the plight of...

The American Library Association, or ALA, has ignored a request by imprisoned Cuban counterparts to demand leader Fidel Castro release them, but the author of "Fahrenheit 451" responded after viewing evidence of court-ordered book burning. "I stand against any library or any librarian anywhere in the world being imprisoned or punished in any way for the books they circulate," Bradbury said. "I plead with Castro and his government to immediately take their hands off the independent librarians and release all those librarians in prison, and to send them back into Cuban culture to inform the people." .... In the case...

After giving a keynote speech this week at the American Library Association's annual convention, science fiction author Ray Bradbury joined a growing list of international writers and human rights activists in condemning the persecution of Cuba's Independent Library Project. The American Library Association, or ALA, has ignored a request by imprisoned Cuban counterparts to demand leader Fidel Castro release them, but the author of "Fahrenheit 451" responded after viewing evidence of court-ordered book burning. "I stand against any library or any librarian anywhere in the world being imprisoned or punished in any way for the books they circulate," Bradbury said....

Nine Papal Jokes for the newly elected resident of the Chair of St. Peter. (Answers at the end) 1. What did the new Pope have for breakfast his first day on the job? 2. What can the Pope do that no one else on earth can do? 3. As Cardinal Ratzinger, the newest Pope was on record of giving full support for controversial Catholic dogmas such as the selling of indulgences, purgatory, and the Immaculat Conception of Mary. What might Martin Luther say in response to these official teachings of the Magisterium? 4. What did Senator Edward Kennedy say about...

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=4617 The Day the World Shook to its Core by Rabbi Ben Tzion Krasnianski Jan 02, '05 / 21 Tevet 5765 Sunday, December 26, will forever be remembered as the day that the worst tragedy in our generation struck without warning, out of the clear blue sky. The world shook to its core, leaving 120,000 confirmed dead (as of this writing) and still rising. Six billion people had a front row seat as the gut-wrenching images of a tragedy of Biblical proportions flashed around the globe. In just minutes, a 30-foot wall of water, racing across the Indian Ocean at...

"Going Upriver" takes Vietnam-era film footage, a sound track of 1960s music from Crosby, Stills and Nash, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan (to name a few), and juxtaposes those in-the-moment images and sounds with poignant interviews of Kerry's Swift Boat crew members and others who came home with a burning need to stop the war. It raises important questions such as, why would a bright, talented Yale student volunteer to serve in Vietnam, instead of seeking a deferment or having his diplomat father pull a few strings to land him a less risky assignment (as others of his...

They looked more exhausted than shocked, more ragged than worried. But as they ate and dressed late last night, navigating their way through the tiny Fenway Park visitors' clubhouse, the Yankees couldn't hide their state of mind.... "God, this was a tough one to lose," Tom Gordon said. At five hours and 49 minutes, the game set a record for the longest in baseball's postseason "We have a lot of intensity on both sides of this thing, and it takes on a life of its own," Joe Torre said. " ... Each game is a series in itself. And I...

In addition Bamford suggests that the CIA caved in to pressure from hard-liners. He quotes a CIA case officer who says that in January 2003, one of the agency's higher-ups called a meeting and said, "If Bush wants to go to war, it's your job to give him a reason to do so." Bamford is highly persuasive in recounting how U.S. intelligence agencies lacked specialists in many key Middle Eastern languages and a sufficient number of analysts to grapple with an avalanche of cyber-age data, and shows how even though Americans like John Walker Lindh had been secretly joining Al...

Less than two weeks ago, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, whose statements on faith over the last 20 years or so caused the word ‘anodyne’ to look too exciting - The Telegraph styled him ‘benignly soporific’ - suddenly let rip about Islam in a speech in Rome. Startled British newspaper readers put their knives and forks down on their breakfast plates and reread the excerpts carefully, in disbelief. Lord Carey, formerly a preacher of multiculti boilerplate and now morphed into a tell-it-like-it-is kind of guy, had said in a speech in Rome that Islam is “authoritarian, inflexible and...

Subject: [SRRTAC-L:13083] Fwd: Howard Zinn's 7 rules From: Alfred Kagan Date: Mon, March 15, 2004 10:22 am To: SRRT Action Council This came to me today. >March 7 1999 > >On Getting Along > >By Howard Zinn > >You ask how I manage to stay involved and remain seemingly happy and > adjusted to this awful world where the efforts of caring people pale in > comparison to those who have power? > >It's easy. First, don't let "those who have power" intimidate you. No > matter how much power they have they cannot prevent you from living > your...

The Abandoned Librarians Castro's Judges Burn Books 'Lacking Usefulness' January 29th, 2004 1:30 PM Carla Hayden, president of the American Library Association: "committed to intellectual freedom," with certain exceptions (Hilary Schwab Photography) s I've been reporting in this column, there has been a fierce civil war within the American Library Association as to whether that body—the largest organization of librarians in the world—will help free the 10 librarians locked up in Fidel Castro's gulag for the next 20 or more years for making available to Cubans such subversive documents as the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and George...

U.S. Castro backers squelch prisoners' plea American librarians in battle over colleagues jailed in crackdown American librarians sympathetic to Fidel Castro's communist regime are battling to prevent their national organization from responding to a plea from independent librarians imprisoned in Cuba for up to 26 years. As WorldNetDaily reported, 14 members of Cuba's Independent Library project were swept up in a crackdown last March on charges that included making available the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and books such as George Orwell's "Animal Farm." Meeting in San Diego this week, the American Library Association is scheduled to vote on a...

Nat Hentoff A U.S. Librarian Defends Castro Books to Overthrow Castro? January 5th, 2004 2:00 PM Ann Sparanese, a member of the governing Council of the American Library Association, has written a letter to the Voice criticizing my columns about Fidel Castro's prison sentences of 20 and more years for 75 Cuban dissenters, including 10 independent librarians. To her credit, she says, "I don't have the right to speak for the entire American Library Association." She is exercising her First Amendment right to speak for herself—the basis for the intellectual freedom, including the freedom to read, that until now the...

[PLEASE SEE FREEP EMAIL INFORMATION AFTER THIS ARTICLE]The ALA: "Castro's favorite librarians" PROVIDENCE, RI, December 24, 2003 (Providence Journal Op-Ed) - The American Library Association is concerned about Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, which lets the FBI, while investigating terrorism, match lists of books with their borrowers. U.S. Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft says that he is not invoking Section 215, but, as the ALA points out, that does not prevent its use in the future. The ALA supports the right of people to gain access to information without qualification: in the words of its slogan, "Free People Read...

May God be restored to the British Isles By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Even when I lived in Oxford between 1988 and 1999, the Church of England was rapidly becoming a rotting corpse. Church attendance was at such an all-time low that one survey claimed less than 5 percent of congregants were regularly in attendance. An embarrassingly high number of Church of England vicars were saying in surveys that they questioned the existence of God. I recall how one Sunday morning I was the guest on a religious TV show debating the existence of the devil. Accompanying me...

(A poem re: the tragedy follows this news) Tehran, Dec 29 - Pope John Paul II Sunday evening extended his profound condolences on the occasion of the killer quake which hit southeastern Iran on Friday morning. Addressing a large group of Christians who had gathered invatican on the threshold of the new year, the Pope urged the world people, the Christians in particular, to help the survivors of the devastating quake in Iran and to provide them with their humanitarian supplies. A killer quake with a magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter scale hit the city of Bam in the...

Congressman Ron Paul addresses the U.S. House of Representatives July 10, 2003 "Neo-conned" The modern-day, limited-government movement has been co-opted. The conservatives have failed in their effort to shrink the size of government. There has not been, nor will there soon be, a conservative revolution in Washington. Political party control of the federal government has changed, but the inexorable growth in the size and scope of government has continued unabated. The liberal arguments for limited government in personal affairs and foreign military adventurism were never seriously considered as part of this revolution. Since the change of the political party in...

Talking dirty to the American people An estimated 22 per cent of Americans get their daily news from Talk Radio - bizarre, bigoted and often startlingly misinformed diatribes from radio show hosts hired for their ability to shock first and foremost. TV journalist Sheila MacVicar visited a few and was appropriately shocked. Talk Radio is a peculiarly American phenomenon featuring much rhetoric and not a lot of substance; high volume noise often combined with the absence of facts. As a journalist living in Europe, working for an international news organisation, it is a phenomenon that I have experienced only as...

PLEASE EMAIL ALA PRESS OFFICE and PRESIDENT and CASTROITE OFFICIALS AT ALA to prevent them from spiking an appeal from Cuba...read on, it is OUTRAGEOUS hypocrisy from people who claim to love books. Emails to send at end. We have two days before ALA debate to LET THE PEOPLE SPEAK!!!! YEARNING FOR FREEDOM American librarians silence Cuban pleas Question legitimacy of book lenders imprisoned in crackdown by Castro -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: June 24, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Art Moore © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The co-founder of a movement that put George Orwell's anti-totalitarian classic "Animal Farm" in the hands of Cubans...