How the South was Lost

[gary]

Time for a mental break from all the serious things we discuss here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQZCoA_T_zM

[M E Wolf]

Dear Gary,

I saw it and nearly fell out of my computer chair, laughing so hard at the end; any more I would need a lap belt to keep me strapped in to the computer chair.

Bravo!

Thank you for sharing it.

Respectfully submitted,
M. E. Wolf

[blue_zouave]

Thanks for the laugh!

I also got a kick out of scrolling through a few of the thousand or so text comments.

Zou

[Glorybound]

Thanks Gary. Watched the whole thing. It was too funny. You know those very questions voiced by the enlisted men had to have been running through the minds of at least some of the soldiers back then.

Reb Lieut: "Well, I guess they'll just remove your head and see what happens. I don't know. I'm a lieutenant not a doctor." (referring to a question from one of the men about what would happen if he were shot in the head, not a removable limb.)

Johnny: "I'm sorry but this is not what I thought it was gonna be."


Leland

[johan_steele]

Funny. Gary you are a baaad man.

[larry_cockerham]

That little scene went quickly to the heart of war. Man against the prospect of death. A little more thought in that regard might have saved a few hundred thousand lives in 1861-65.

[diddyriddick]

Originally Posted by larry_cockerham

That little scene went quickly to the heart of war. Man against the prospect of death. A little more thought in that regard might have saved a few hundred thousand lives in 1861-65.

Or any other war for that matter.

Funny clip!

[mt155]

Great stuff ! ! !. The one guy that talks about meetin some friends and gettin a little exercise reminds me of John Candy in Stripes where he talks about his weight problem and the Army has a 6-8 week program and he'd get out a lean mean fightin machine.

Mike T.

[samgrant]

I am shocked, shocked!, to find that one of our own would promote such a negative stereotypical depiction of our Southern citizens. Have you no shame, sir?


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[Glorybound]

By Samgrant

I am shocked, shocked!, to find that one of our own would promote such a negative stereotypical depiction of our Southern citizens. Have you no shame, sir?

Actually Sam, I thought it was sort of an anti-stereotypical portrayal of Johnny Reb. I rarely hear of or read of Civil War soldiers asking those questions of their superiors. Those were very common sense valid questions those boys were asking, and it was refreshing to actually hear them addressing their superior with their concerns. I doubt if that really happened much in real life, though. Movies, books. etc don't usually show Johnny or Billy questioning their superiors with those type of queries, and most of them probably didn't. But I know the questions that were asked out loud in this clip, must have been running through the minds of most of the boys fighting back then, even if they weren't addressed to an officer.

The really funny part of the clip is the officer's surprise and unpreparedness, and his clumsy attempts to answer them or blow them off and repeat "we're gonna fight and we're gonna win!" And the boys get a little less and less enthusiastic with their lieutenant's continuing lame answers and platitudes.

Thus the statement from the one soldier finally: "I'm sorry but this is not what I thought it was gonna be."


Respectfully,
Leland