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 Posted: Mon Sep 24th, 2007 04:44 am
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 A temporary diversion, Javal. This shall just be a bump in the night. Now. What were we talking about? Indignation.

I will be the first to agree that "the March" might very well be controversial. It certainly visited the realities of war on the civilian population of a part of Georgia and a larger part of South Carolina. I happen to believe that the same devastated population got more or less rooked into a war. Having given that population the benefit of the doubt of who started what, I'm usually quite surprised that today's advocates for southern rights can resent what happened then.

Today, it looks quite nasty. Then, it looked very much like a war. Sherman has 60,000 rangy western men who've mostly been through three years of hell. Most of the guys they enlisted with are gone. They have survived. It amazes me that they didn't kill everyone and destroy everything between Atlanta and Savannah.

Did this get the thread back on track?

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