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Currently -11 degrees F. mid-morning in E-ville.

Hera has found the best spot to curl up and stay warm. Y'all could do worse, yourselves.

aefenglommung
13 Jun 2020, 11:58
Making peace with the past
There was a Fort Sherman in northern Idaho, once upon a time.
(Anonymous)
13 Jun 2020, 06:54
Making peace with the past
Actually, those army bases named after Confederates are all in the South (logically) and they were all created at the time of World War I.
That was about 50 years after the Civil War, and there were…
(Anonymous)
11 Jun 2020, 08:01
America's original sin?
A couple of additions to my previous post. (I was afraid I was going to run out of room.)

1. The North/South reconciliation, according to one author, was much aided by the rather foolish Spanish -…
(Anonymous)
11 Jun 2020, 05:14
America's original sin?
I have read your last 3 posts on "cultural guilt," as I would sum it up, with great interest.. I agee with you about original native Americans, being the first of our "racial sins." We still…
prester_scott
9 Jun 2020, 15:24
Making peace with the past
In both of those cases, peace was made only because unconditional victory had been won over one or both parties by overwhelming force. North and South, or Sioux and Crow, couldn't take up old…