A trip to Gettysburg

[honkerman]

I would have added this to my other scooto-vlog thread, but this is unique enough to warrant its own.

Blog entry is here:

http://scootinfool.blogspot.com/2016/07 ... -trip.html

Or you can just watch the YouTube video

[Lanesplitter]

Familiar sights. Antietam Battlefield is a nice ride south from there.

[easyrider]

Great video.. Been there several times and a great motor ride..especially in the fall. See any Ghosts ??

[Mel46]

If you stand in the battlefield long enough you will feel the ghosts. It is a weird feeling. My wife and I have been there a few times and every time I go there I think of all of the thousands of needless deaths there. From our perspective now we can see that the Civil War was going to happen no matter what they tried to do to stop it because there was such a difference in each sides' viewpoint of how things should be. Neither the North nor the South wanted that war, but the South was being forced to change a lifestyle that had been there since before the founding of the United States. That is hard for everyone, everywhere. I see no other outcome to the Civil War because the North had all of the advantages and none of the disadvantages that the South had. But death is final, and if you shoot at someone they will shoot back, so once it started it had to end in bloodshed. Still tens of thousands lost their lives. That was such a waste of lives.

[flyingzonker]

Did you have visions of charging, on your trusty steed--I hope you had a horse tail, at least, taped to the back of the grab bar of your PCX-- into the thick of, and against, Pickett's screaming rebel horde.

[you you]

I'd like to go, what's the address?

[you you]

If you stand in the battlefield long enough you will feel the ghosts. It is a weird feeling. My wife and I have been there a few times and every time I go there I think of all of the thousands of needless deaths there. From our perspective now we can see that the Civil War was going to happen no matter what they tried to do to stop it because there was such a difference in each sides' viewpoint of how things should be. Neither the North nor the South wanted that war, but the South was being forced to change a lifestyle that had been there since before the founding of the United States. That is hard for everyone, everywhere. I see no other outcome to the Civil War because the North had all of the advantages and none of the disadvantages that the South had. But death is final, and if you shoot at someone they will shoot back, so once it started it had to end in bloodshed. Still tens of thousands lost their lives. That was such a waste of lives.

It was political like ever other war. Saps die or kill when told to or allowed to when made "legal".

[honkerman]

I'd like to go, what's the address?

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. If you're not fond of the heat, it's very nice in the Autumn, but muddy in the spring. Lots of history and there are resources at the visitors' center.

http://visitgettysburgpa.com/

[honkerman]

Did you have visions of charging, on your trusty steed--I hope you had a horse tail, at least, taped to the back of the grab bar of your PCX-- into the thick of, and against, Pickett's screaming rebel horde.

hah...no, no horsetail. And I was a little distracted by that crazy little scooter/car thing.

[easyrider]

If you stand in the battlefield long enough you will feel the ghosts. It is a weird feeling. My wife and I have been there a few times and every time I go there I think of all of the thousands of needless deaths there. From our perspective now we can see that the Civil War was going to happen no matter what they tried to do to stop it because there was such a difference in each sides' viewpoint of how things should be. Neither the North nor the South wanted that war, but the South was being forced to change a lifestyle that had been there since before the founding of the United States. That is hard for everyone, everywhere. I see no other outcome to the Civil War because the North had all of the advantages and none of the disadvantages that the South had. But death is final, and if you shoot at someone they will shoot back, so once it started it had to end in bloodshed. Still tens of thousands lost their lives. That was such a waste of lives.

That was very well said and very true, but I think the North just forced the hand too too much and pushed the South into it. Abe Lincoln if he was a really great president should have been able to use his greatness and skills to negotiate a better outcome than war. There were many alternative ways to end slavery and the economic disagreements that existed in that time.Abe Lincoln in my view was a terrible president who presided over the bloodiest war that this country has ever seen combined. That's not greatness ..that's deplorable. Its funny that England and France etc ended their slavery policies without firing a shot. Why couldn't we have done the same.

[you you]

I'd like to go, what's the address?

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. If you're not fond of the heat, it's very nice in the Autumn, but muddy in the spring. Lots of history and there are resources at the visitors' center.

http://visitgettysburgpa.com/

You've got me, I don't know if you are pulling my chain or not.

Gettysburg address?

[honkerman]

I'd like to go, what's the address?

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. If you're not fond of the heat, it's very nice in the Autumn, but muddy in the spring. Lots of history and there are resources at the visitors' center.

http://visitgettysburgpa.com/

You've got me, I don't know if you are pulling my chain or not.

Gettysburg address?

Well, I'll be honest, my mind was so full, I missed the pun. Lol.

[you you]

You've got me, I don't know if you are pulling my chain or not.

Gettysburg address?

Well, I'll be honest, my mind was so full, I missed the pun. Lol.

It wasn't the best . I'll try harder next time

[kramnala58]

You've got me, I don't know if you are pulling my chain or not.
Gettysburg address?

Well, I'll be honest, my mind was so full, I missed the pun. Lol.

It wasn't the best . I'll try harder next time

Must be a slow day for me as well. I had to read it 3 or times before in sunk in. You gotta to better than that 2u's