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Post by jellybean on Feb 11, 2008 17:33:46 GMT -6
Conz,
A few years ago we visited Andersonville. I was totally unprepared for the mental impact it had on both of us. It was like every man who had been there was clutching at us. The prison site has a depressing gloom that weighs one down and drags away one's strength and happiness. It is almost like all the sadness of the world is concentrated on that one spot. There is a little town nearby and it is a sad and desperate looking place too. I am not particularly squeamish but Andersonville is a place that I hope never to visit again.
Jellybean
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Post by gocav76 on Feb 11, 2008 17:41:29 GMT -6
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Post by Scout on Feb 11, 2008 19:28:45 GMT -6
I had two great uncles who rode with Forrest until Shiloh. One was severely wounded and the other up and left with him. My immediate great grandfather was in the 9th Tenn. and fought at Shiloh, Chickamauga, Stones River, Missionary Ridge and the daily battles from Dalton, Ga., all the way to Atlanta where he was shot in the lung. He was sent to a hospital, more or less to die since they could do nothing for him at the time, but lived to be 85. When he died he still had the lead ball in his lung area and my father said he would have severe coughing spells where he coughed up blood. Regardless of what anyone writes there was nothing romantic about the old south.
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Post by conz on Feb 15, 2008 15:43:21 GMT -6
Conz, A few years ago we visited Andersonville. I was totally unprepared for the mental impact it had on both of us. It was like every man who had been there was clutching at us. The prison site has a depressing gloom that weighs one down and drags away one's strength and happiness. It is almost like all the sadness of the world is concentrated on that one spot. There is a little town nearby and it is a sad and desperate looking place too. I am not particularly squeamish but Andersonville is a place that I hope never to visit again. Jellybean What we did to our own POWs is incredible. My grandfather died as a prisoner of the Japanese in WWII, and I have a hard time hating them knowing what we did to our very own... Clair
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Post by conz on Feb 15, 2008 15:46:07 GMT -6
Of course, to put it all in perspective on this forum, what the Native American did to THEIR prisoners, Native or European or African, was much worse, individually and overall, then either we or the Japanese ever did to theirs.
But our Native brethren get excused for being "savages," eh? And to their credit, they don't do it anymore.
We once in a while lose our heads and still do horribly mistreat prisoners, but not as a rule.
Clair
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