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» The Fourth
| Haar |
Posted: Jul 1 2008, 10:40 PM
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Okay, so being ye olde friendly neighborhood historian, I wanted to point out a few things what with the coming of the Fourth of July weekend.
Firstly, while it is obviously very important that the Declaration of Independence was drafted on the Fourth of July (drafted, not signed), it is also worth mentioning one overlooked event that happened years later in the days before the holiday. We're talking the 1860's. A country divided. A group of soldiers in blue coats has amassed on a ridge of hills alongside a cemetary overlooking a little town in Pennsylvania. On the other side, hidden in the forests and behind another ridge near a seminary, are troops in gray. The two armies will come together, the gray troops assaulting the blue. But the blue line will hold and the gray troops will ultimately lose the battle and shortly afterwards, the war. Now, from that information, I dare someone to figure out the name of the war and the name of the battle before the Fourth. Happy Fourth of July! -------------------- "You know, man, you're the history major. You're the one who told me that Roosevelt or whoever once said that yesterday is not ours to recapture but that tomorrow was ours to win or lose or something like that. You also said that Lincoln said the best thing about the future was that it comes one day at a time, right? Well, maybe you just need to take this one day at a time too. Why are you gonna risk giving up your friends because of something stupid you did before? Wouldn't that make it more stupid? Learn your lesson from what you did and make a better tomorrow. That seems like the kind of thing you normally do. And look, you don't have to lose any friends."
-A good friend.  |
  
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| Hananosei |
Posted: Jul 4 2008, 01:50 AM
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That sounds like the Battle of Gettysburg. O-o'
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| Haar |
Posted: Jul 4 2008, 04:38 AM
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Ding-ding-ding!
Congratulations, Hana, you are our one and only grand-prize winner! Bob, tell her what she's won! *crickets* Bob? *crickets* Erm... well, since it seems that Bob is no long here, I'm sorry to say that you actually won't be getting anything. Them's is the breaks, kid. -------------------- "You know, man, you're the history major. You're the one who told me that Roosevelt or whoever once said that yesterday is not ours to recapture but that tomorrow was ours to win or lose or something like that. You also said that Lincoln said the best thing about the future was that it comes one day at a time, right? Well, maybe you just need to take this one day at a time too. Why are you gonna risk giving up your friends because of something stupid you did before? Wouldn't that make it more stupid? Learn your lesson from what you did and make a better tomorrow. That seems like the kind of thing you normally do. And look, you don't have to lose any friends."
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| Hananosei |
Posted: Jul 4 2008, 11:38 PM
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WHOOT! I won... something. *grabs a cookie from a cookie jar and nibbles*
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