where would you be?

[nitrofd]

I having been giving my mind some serious thought and that is not easy.If you could go back in time and witness any event, what would you choose?
I have been able to narrow it to three:my examples
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural address
The signing of the Declaration of Independence
What's Yours.

 

[Mike Serpa]

The Resurrection
Krakatoa Explosion
The clay model of Leonardo's horse being made

Modern version in Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids Michigan.

 

[E_just_E]

The Big Bang.

 

[GenDeb]

Ohhh, Krakatoa is a good one! The viewpoint would be dicey, above and slightly to one side to watch most of it perhaps. I have to think about this question, it's a good one with lots of possibilities.

 

[Mike Serpa]

The Big Bang.

That would make Krakatoa seem minuscule!

 

[Mike Serpa]

Ohhh, Krakatoa is a good one! The viewpoint would be dicey, above and slightly to one side to watch most of it perhaps. I have to think about this question, it's a good one with lots of possibilities.

I might pick three others if I were to do it again.

 

[lakertaker]

Watching Native Americans hunt buffalo on the Plains. The 19th century waterfowl migrations on the Mississippi Flyway would have also been spectacular.

 

[nitrofd]

Maybe I wasn't clear but I was referring to American history.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

The Big Bang.

Where would you stand?

 

[E_just_E]

Where would you stand?

δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω
Archimedes.

But it really is an existential question and I don't think that standing would had been a problem then and there...

 

[E_just_E]

Maybe I wasn't clear but I was referring to American history.

Big Bang is part of American History
not modern American History, but...

 

[Mike Serpa]

The signing of the Insurrection Act
The Trinity test explosion
Vist the modern version of Leonardo's horse in Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids Michigan.

 

[GenDeb]

If you could go back in time and witness any event, what would you choose?

That is the key. I would like to go back in time and see one of the Salem Witch Trials but I sure as heck wouldn't have wanted to have lived then. One of my husband's ancestors' sisters was jailed, but the whole thing was finally disbanded before she came to trial. I've had a morbid curiosity about the whole mess ever since I read about a genealogical connection ...

2. On one of the moon landings.

3. In the room with Grant and Lee at Appommatox.

 

[gunny]

The first 4th of July.

 

[hanna260]

My great- grandparents wedding.

Oh, and perhaps a few days before the end of the war to tell Mr. Lincoln just two simple words- "Thank you."

 

[Allie]

Sermon on the mount, definitely. The other two I need some time to think.

Edit: just read the clarification - hmm. American history? Need more time to think on all three...

 

[Allie]

Okay, I've got one! I want to watch whoever carved "Croatoa" on that tree at Roanoke.

 

[Allie]

In the room with Oswald during the Kennedy assassination.

With Hernando de Soto when he first saw the Mississippi.

I may think of better ones later but right now that's mine.

 

[Union_Buff]

At the German surrender on May 8th 1945 and the Japanese surrender on September 2nd 1945 - the two ending dates for active combat for three of my great uncles (two in the European theatre and one in the Burma theatre).

 

[TinCan]

I'd like to be one of the 61 boys in the cavalry of Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar (got to admire a man with a name like that) at San Jacinto!
With TR at Kettle Hill, Cuba, or with Dewey at Manila Bay.