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Date Posted: 10:24:18 01/01/08 Tue
Author: ErinD
Subject: And you've just about hit my theme, Jane! I was fascinated to see LJ as a soldier in BOTB and HOD. The violence we see in his role as soldier and officer seems quite at odds with the gentleman we see in the main series. To recap, Sunday was hand-to-hand combat, Monday was paperwork (DH is a reserve officer and always has lots of paperwork!), and today is strategy/tactics. More to come - glad the theme wasn't completely out in left field! :)
In reply to: ErinD 's message, "QUOTE OF THE DAY for TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2008" on 20:19:03 12/31/07 Mon


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  • The second quote reminds me that in Gone with the Wind, people in the artillery (Rhett Butler, for example) were thought of much more highly than infantrymen, and were considered to be more intelligent and skilled. (NT) -- sharon fisher, 13:17:59 01/01/08 Tue

  • Oh goodie, something weird I actually KNOW about! I do Civil War Re-enacting with my husband. We are in the First Virginia Artillery (Confederates). Our gun crew tends a 10 pound Parrot Rifle and a smaller gun called a Mountain Howitzer. My husband is my gun sergeant. In order to have worked the gun back then you had to have the education required to plot the trajectory and drop of the shot over a distance of a football field or two. Only the most highly educated men were assigned to the artillery, the guns were valuable, and their work extremely important in the battles, covering the advance of the foot-soldiers. (NT) -- Jane, 14:17:29 01/01/08 Tue

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