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Jannae Karas
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12-01-2009 17:56
From: Veritable Quandry I am an expatriate Portlander. I have, however, lived in West Texas for 1 1/2 years to get my Museum Studies degree, followed by a year in Biloxi, Mississippi and nine years in Northeast Arkansas. I've enjoyed all of these places, even Lubbock (and even natives will tell you Lubbock is hard to like). But as far as The War goes, my family came to the US around 1900, so I don't have a dog in that fight. You sure do get around. Some fine places in your resume. My family went military, and I moved all over. Presently living in N. California on the coast. My dad's family is old US stock (my mom's Japanese ^_^) and I have grown up reliving both of the American wars for independance. I'm no rabid "rebel" myself, just having a bit of fun.
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Veritable Quandry
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12-01-2009 18:11
From: Jannae Karas I'm no rabid "rebel" myself, just having a bit of fun. No harm in that. Japan had an interesting Civil War about the same time as the US did (my history degree was a strange mix of early Oregon and Bakumatsu Japan). |
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Peggy Paperdoll
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12-01-2009 18:19
From: Veritable Quandry I am an expatriate Portlander. I have, however, lived in West Texas for 1 1/2 years to get my Museum Studies degree, followed by a year in Biloxi, Mississippi and nine years in Northeast Arkansas. I've enjoyed all of these places, even Lubbock (and even natives will tell you Lubbock is hard to like). But as far as The War goes, my family came to the US around 1900, so I don't have a dog in that fight. /me scratches head and wonders why places like Jonesboro, Pocohontas, and Blythville would be places anyone would admit living in for 9 nine years. Oh, someone who doesn't think happiness is Lubbuck, Texas in his rear view mirror.  Back down now..........I'm from Arkansas (via Texas). |
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Jannae Karas
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12-01-2009 18:32
From: Peggy Paperdoll Oh, someone who doesn't think happiness is Lubbuck, Texas in his rear view mirror. :)
Back down now..........I'm from Arkansas (via Texas). :)[/QUOTE
As RL Lee said, "Texans always move 'em!"
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Veritable Quandry
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12-01-2009 18:32
Jonesboro is exactly where I lived, but I had a nice, cheap faculty house and almost never left campus. And Lubbock is much better in retrospect than it was actually living there at the time. It is the only place where I have literally seen it rain mud. And my opinion is not shared...my wife would divorce me before returning to Lubbock, despite her fondness for prairie dogs.
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Jig Chippewa
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12-01-2009 21:11
Arent those uniforms kinda itchy?
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Jannae Karas
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12-01-2009 21:32
From: Jig Chippewa Arent those uniforms kinda itchy? Yes
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Jig Chippewa
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12-01-2009 21:56
Well, they oughta get some of those fancy ones that teh French army wore and officers so at least they are kinda good looking, with beerskin hats and those cute little jackets they hang on their shoulder with a epuelette
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12-02-2009 01:37
I am slightly confused by the nomenclature used.
Pep (How could *any* war be described as "civil"?)
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Veritable Quandry
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12-02-2009 08:21
From: Jig Chippewa Well, they oughta get some of those fancy ones that teh French army wore and officers so at least they are kinda good looking, with beerskin hats and those cute little jackets they hang on their shoulder with a epuelette There were some more fashionable uniforms used during the war, especially the early years when most units were still organized as state militias.      The bottom image is of Bearden's Sharpshooters, the first American unit to be issued green combat uniforms. |