I have never been in the military, so maybe I am unaware of an obvious answer. Why are the headstones all exactly the same in military...
Interrogator, there's no need to be so condescending. I know it goes against moral ethics of people to think of Hitler as anything but a racist,...
I know a large number of bodies were never recovered in the Civil War. It happens in modern wars. Sometimes bodies are even found and cannot be...
Before I even read it, I wondered why they would destroy a 150-year-old piece of the Civil War. There must have been a way to make it safe. The bomb...
I suppose any battlefield would be considered hallowed ground or a cemetery, figuratively, if not literally. I never thought about bones still being...
Whites were not slaves in the term of being truly owned. They were indentured servants. But their "masters" could and did beat them, and treat them...
It was amazing how well people followed him. He convinced people that (at least outwardly) had been completely normal to become torturers and...
I live up North. Obviously we don't have the Confederate flag. I notice it greatly when I travel. It is almost as if southerners want to be treated...
We are taking a trip that way in 2016. Beautiful picture. Gettysburg is one of the most famous battle sites in the world. As an avid metal-detecting...
Hitler is likely the most hated and reviled person in all the history of the world, with maybe the exception of Judas Iscariot. Obviously most people...
I am not trying to create a discussion about fiction. But you are right, it is speculative. But my true goal was to arouse people's minds to consider...
I was unaware what the Trans-Mississippi Theater of Operation even was. I did a little reading on it. I had no idea that there were Civil War battles...
Thank you, Interrogator#6. Minneapolis is much closer to me than Sturgis. I have never actually been to the metro-area, or the Mall of America. I...
I look at hippies and "draft-dodgers" like this: would I be brave enough to go to war if called upon? Today's soldiers all go to war by choice, as...
I am brand new to this site. I have made a few posts and replied to a few more. It looks pretty exciting! I like the large sections of historical...
I also find it strange, because there were threats of collapse long before the Civil War. We have been a "house divided" since infancy. Sometimes...
What would be different today if there were two United States of America? Even if Lincoln had not been the one to abolish slavery, it would...
I think the North was "somewhat" racist. No one truly saw black people as equal to whites. It was just time they lived in. White children grew up...
I agree with you entirely, and have had this debate many times over the years. Not only is it offensive, it really should be treated as treason. The...
Iowa was a fairly new state during the Civil War, but we still sent 58 regiments. That was 76,000 men. At the time we only had 700,000 people. Of the...
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