farglebargle
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ORIGINAL: shyinini ]I received this in todays email.... maybe cause of your topic Level Sir?? Please join us in this FLY THE FLAG campaign and PLEASE forward this to everyone you know, asking them to also forward it participate & forward. We have a little less than one week and counting to get the word out all across this great land and into every community in the United States of America. THE PROGRAM IS THIS: On Tuesday, September 11th, 2007, an American flag should be displayed outside every home, apartment, office, and store in the United States. Every individual should make it their duty to display an American flag on this anniversary of our country's worst tragedy. I would caution against subscribing to hyperbolic propaganda. 9/11 wasn't EVEN CLOSE to our nations worst tragedy. More people die on the highways each year. 3000 dead is NOTHING compared to REAL casualties. Here is the top 10 from JUST the Civil War. 10. Battle of Fort Donelson Date: February 13-16, 1862 Casualties: 19,455 (2,832 Union and 16,623 Confederate) 9. Battle of Shiloh Date: April 6-7, 1862 Casualties: 23,741 (13,047 Union and 10,694 Confederate) 8. Battle of Stone's River Date: December 31, 1862 Casualties: 24,645 (12,906 Union and 11,739 Confederate) 7. Battle of Second Manassas Date: August 29-30, 1862 Casualties: 25,251 (16,054 Union and 9,197 Confederate) 6. Battle of The Wilderness Date: May 5-7, 1864 Casualties: 25,416 (17,666 Union and 7,750 Confederate) 5. Battle of Antietam Date: September 17, 1862 Casualties: 26,134 (12,410 Union and 13,724 Confederate) 4.. Battle of Spotsylvania Date: May 8-19, 1864 Casualties: 27,399 (18,399 Union and 9)000 Confederate) 3. Battle of Chancellorsville Date: May 1-4, 1863 Casualties: 30,099 (17,278 Union and 12,821 Confederate) 2. Battle of Chickamauga Date: September 19-20, 1863 Casualties: 34,624 (16,170 Union and 18,454 Confederate) 1. Battle of Gettysburg Date: July 1-3, 1863 Casualties: 51,112 (23,049 Union and 28,063 Confederate) Gettysburg. After which Lincoln so elegantly summarized the ***ONLY*** permissible reason for mobilizing the Republic to War. A lesson which Bush and his Supporters obviously did not learn. Oh, and the tape? Osama Bin Ladin sings Bon Jovi's Greatest Hits of the 1980s.
< Message edited by farglebargle -- 9/6/2007 11:29:22 PM >
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