Does anyone else ever get sick of rednecks?
I was reading through some of the questions last night before before bed, and one of them pertained to the civil war. Well, I thought that was all finished up, done and over with, but apparently not. Now, my family, who arrived in this country SHORTLY before the start of the war all, EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM , fought for the Union. We still have aftifacts including the skull of a dead confedarate soldiar that my great great great uncle Bernard took clean off the body of a confederate soldier. Of course, that soldier wasn’t dead yet. And my GGG uncle didn’t want to waste any ammunition, so he took a hammer and hit the man (who was already badly injured) several times in the head with a hammer. He apparently had a significant neck wound, so my GGG uncle went ahead (no pun, I swear), and sawed his head off with the nearest available saw. He carried that guys head around with him (not too close, brains oozing out), until it had dried out. that skull was passed down generation after generation, hammer holes still punched in it, to remind us that that we are proud Yankees. I have 1/2 a heart, and so I donate the 677 Small American Flags needed every year on memorial day for the Confederate Cemetary on the Rock Island Arsenal (a 10 minute drive). I get a discount on them at the Military surplus store each year. And heck, why not. They were nothing but slave-owning bigots anyway, but I figure they all might’ve had families too, so why not give em each an American flag on Memorial Day. Escpecially when you considered that they all froze to death over any of the winters they spent here at the Rock Island Confederate Prison Camp on the Rock Island Arsenal. There families would send food and blankets up from down south, but it just wasn’t enough at 42 degrees when the wind comes a ‘whippin off the plains. 45 degrees is halfway between the equator and the north pole, so we are just due south of that, but let me tell you, the winters here are horrible. It’s too bad ’bout all them rednecks. Real shame. Hard sayin’ whatever happened to that old confederate soldiers skull…… hard saying….. I’m sure there are alot of Yankee (and confederate) stories like this, but it just isn’t that often that you get to hear one, now is it? (john in Rock Island, Illinois, QUAD CITIES, USA) (johndeporter@yahoo.com)
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Sick and tired of them….
ANSWER MY Q: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ap6Lm6C5e6gpYSyDlofcA9Dsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090219035315AAMMl9A
Dude…. go get laid or something .
I did not have any family here in the USA during the generation Civil War of America, but war of any color, ( albeit necessary sometimes ) is an ugly thing. I think only for the person who once used that skull for thinking reasons, & that someones Mother has a son that never came home to be put to rest. That in mind, my peoples are from the fmr. Yugoslavia where this & more was a daily event, weighed on scales too horrific to measure, so I know.