The team USA thread is here
@GoMig-21
Lets inject some vigour into it from time to time as we can!
Hey hey hey, look who they finally let out of the cage hahaha.
Very glad to see you back on here, Nilgiri. Behave yourself, though! lol
BTW, I'm a little pissed off I see everyone and their mamas with all their previous forum posting credits while I'm starting all over again! WTH man!? Talk about getting snizzled and snuffed under the rug and never complained and I still couldn't even get my old username account set up on here! Pain in the asssss place!
I still have no idea what the beef was on the old forum that led to its demise and this one opened. Someone must've pissed someone off with the keys to the place, ey? But looks like the main characters are here so at least it's mostly the original crew. Funny how this crap infiltrates every facet of daily life & business.
BTW, you mentioned the carvings on the EAF thread; I'm 1/3rd of the way through a dramatically posed life-sized Red-Tailed hawk that should be quite the impactful sculpture when completed. I have pics of the work in progress on my old phone I;ll post them sometime this week. I think you'll like it. Should have around 600 +/- hours into it when it's app done ISA.
What could be greater than this?
Uhmm, how about something that's grammatically correct to begin with? What's the first line to this piece of historical document?
"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for..."
Wait wuuut? "a more perfect union"? Not sure how something can become
more perfect when it's already perfect to begin with lmao! It cracks me up every time someone mentions this masterpiece loool Especially when it was John Hancock himself (Mr, Signature) who wrote the thing and was thoroughly read by John Quincy Adams and the Mr. $100 dollar bill himself Benny Franklin and neither of them chose to correct it before introducing it into law that would be the essence of governing this great country!?
I guess if they let that blatant grammatical error slide, they weren't going to bother with others like
'insure' which clearly should be '
ensure' LooL! Crazy. I suppose there is something t be said about preserving it in it's original form from John Hancock's feather pen to the first draft.
Talk about historical masterpiece literature? Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address has to be right up there with the best of the best. Truly a masterpiece with profound and impactful wording like none other.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
—Abraham Lincoln
He also wrote that most incredible letter to the mother of the 5 Sullivan brothers who were all serving in WWII (2 in Europe & 3 in the Pacific Theater if I'm not mistaken) and they all died which led to the main theme of the story to Saving Private Ryan. The actor who plays Eisenhower read a portion of that incredible letter to the two generals who found the connection of Ryan to his other 3 slain brothers, hence leading Eisenhower to order him pulled out of the war. That was about the extent of the connection that Saving Private Ryan had to the Sullivan Brothers' story in WWII. Regardless, exemplifies the genius of Lincoln. A great sample for such inspiration to an epic movie. You can see why he was such a genius who basically changed the course of history of this country (and world for that matter) during his short term as president in arguably its most critical time of history. His choice of words and sentence structure is impeccable. Too bad he wasn't around at the time to proofread the Constitution lol.
Dear Madam,
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln
Anyone been to Washington D.C. and seen one of the most incredible marble sculptures in the world, the Lincoln Memorial?
