Hey all, after many, many months of a horrible work load plus a computer that commited suicide and was recently resurrected, I'm back. I chose a new name though. Used to be Tamaroa. Now I'm memphis. Took the name of my father's merchant ship that he served on in the 30's, the SS Memphis City when he sailed for the Isthmian Steamship lines.
Hope to work my way back into the swing of things soon.
Always welcome and good to see you under any guise, Bill.
__________________ 'It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag'
I am still trying how to win that dinner from you!
Keep your head down!
Good to have you back,
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
Welcome back. Sailors stick together. I have just recently moved back on land after living aboard a sailboat for nearly nine years (ah, the stories I can tell....just get me started...cheep, only two beers). My lovely wife as first mate (she says ONLY mate), a Siamese cat as second mate (cool and calm in a crisis) and an Australian blue heeler as an ordinary seaman (a little too excitable to command a vessel). A big huzzah from Wisconsin
Calicoboy
__________________ My dear mother:- I have come safely through two more terrible engagements with the enemy, that at South Mountain and the great battle of yesterday (Antietam). Our splendid regiment is almost destroyed. We have had nearly 400 men killed and wounded in the battles. Seven of our officers were shot and three killed in yesterday's battle and nearly 150 men killed and wounded. All from less than 300 engaged. The men have stood like iron....Maj. Rufus Dawes, 6th Wisconsin Volunteers
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