An another excellent essay Stew. I was 17 when the last civil war veteran died. As an infant I was rocked to sleep by a great grandmother who herself was only an infant when her father in barefeet Marched up the dirt road to join Bells (37th regiment) only to die at Camp Hope (renamed Nelson which the troops called Camp Death, some 75 days later, and he is buried in a mass grave on the side of a hill along with 1,500 other lads who joined the 9th Arkansas and 10th Texas in a fit of patriotic fervor. A great uncle was wounded in Corinth and died in a confederate hospital. Illiterate farmers, both of them, but like all of their time, subject to the propaganda emanating from press and pulpit. The call to arms to preserve the finances and social status of their "betters"
Thom Hartmann has talked about the 80 year interregnum, and I think it comes from a book.
It seems that it take 80 years before the muscle memory of the last great war or social dislocation took place. for the living memory passes on, and what do the elders know, befuddled old folks, with Alzheimers, failing memories, dementia.
Good riddance to the non productive drain on society and the taxpayer, time to reinvent the wheel, and reinventing the wheel is exactly what is going on, but first the job of burning it into ashes is not yet complete, but Trump and the Heritage foundation are working on it.
It is a totally new world that you will be living in Stew, me,well I'm on my way out, I can say this though, I have survived the very best of times this nation has ever seen, in particular I survived Vietnam whereas the rest of my team didn't
I am pretty sure that you aren't Gen Z, my guess is Gen Y, but you and they and Gen X are going to have to live with the world you have created, when you all cast your ballot for Trump is decided not to vote or voted for a third party.
As I have been told, you made your bed now sleep in it.
There was a time I wanted to be immortal, but not I see that mortality is a blessing.
A great article stew, with which I agree, no criticism just adding my own thoughts and observations.
An another excellent essay Stew. I was 17 when the last civil war veteran died. As an infant I was rocked to sleep by a great grandmother who herself was only an infant when her father in barefeet Marched up the dirt road to join Bells (37th regiment) only to die at Camp Hope (renamed Nelson which the troops called Camp Death, some 75 days later, and he is buried in a mass grave on the side of a hill along with 1,500 other lads who joined the 9th Arkansas and 10th Texas in a fit of patriotic fervor. A great uncle was wounded in Corinth and died in a confederate hospital. Illiterate farmers, both of them, but like all of their time, subject to the propaganda emanating from press and pulpit. The call to arms to preserve the finances and social status of their "betters"
Thom Hartmann has talked about the 80 year interregnum, and I think it comes from a book.
It seems that it take 80 years before the muscle memory of the last great war or social dislocation took place. for the living memory passes on, and what do the elders know, befuddled old folks, with Alzheimers, failing memories, dementia.
Good riddance to the non productive drain on society and the taxpayer, time to reinvent the wheel, and reinventing the wheel is exactly what is going on, but first the job of burning it into ashes is not yet complete, but Trump and the Heritage foundation are working on it.
It is a totally new world that you will be living in Stew, me,well I'm on my way out, I can say this though, I have survived the very best of times this nation has ever seen, in particular I survived Vietnam whereas the rest of my team didn't
I am pretty sure that you aren't Gen Z, my guess is Gen Y, but you and they and Gen X are going to have to live with the world you have created, when you all cast your ballot for Trump is decided not to vote or voted for a third party.
As I have been told, you made your bed now sleep in it.
There was a time I wanted to be immortal, but not I see that mortality is a blessing.
A great article stew, with which I agree, no criticism just adding my own thoughts and observations.
This was such a good write up! I enjoyed reading it.