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Saturday, May 03, 2008

The Last Casualty of The American Civil War

...occurred just last February, when an avid collector of Civil War memorabilia was cleaning a 140+ year old cannonball.

Like many boys in the South, Sam White got hooked on the Civil War early, digging up rusting bullets and military buttons in the battle-scarred earth of his hometown.

As an adult, he crisscrossed the Virginia countryside in search of wartime relics — weapons, battle flags, even artillery shells buried in the red clay. He sometimes put on diving gear to feel for treasures hidden in the black muck of river bottoms.

But in February, White’s hobby cost him his life: A cannonball he was restoring exploded, killing him in his driveway. More than 140 years after Lee surrendered to Grant, the cannonball was still powerful enough to send a chunk of shrapnel through the front porch of a house a quarter-mile from White’s home…

Life is uncertain, my friends! There is no guarantee of tomorrow. Live life accordingly!

H/T Hot Air

Cross Posted at Proof Positive

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Thanks… just what I needed on a Saturday night…


"Here lies, in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God.”

“As a conservative, I will not be overly enthusiastic about voting for John McCain on November 4 - but I will be sprinting to the polling place to do so!”
Matthew May, conservative commentator, The American Spectator

pparets on May 3, 2008 at 05:50 pm
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I suppose I could have added that liberals are calling for a speedy withdrawal!



For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

Proof on May 3, 2008 at 06:13 pm

Is that the north liberals or the south liberals?  Must have been the north cause most of the war was waged in the south.


You don’t have to be a moron to be a liberal Democrat but it sure helps.

docdave on May 3, 2008 at 06:35 pm
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I blame Bush for not providing Mr. White with an uparmored Humvee! (And the Virginia legislature for not declaring Mr. White’s driveway a “Cannonball Free Zone”!)



For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

Proof on May 3, 2008 at 06:47 pm
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I mean, nothing unexpected ever happens in war does it?



For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

Proof on May 3, 2008 at 06:51 pm
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