Re: What's Going on in Europe
Reply #1273 –
Re: your p.s., yeah, I'd like to see who you mean ("to whom you are referring" would be proper grammar...) Pardon -if you note it- the delay in my responses: It seems my Logitech keyboard doesn't like coffee as much as I do... I gave it the merest taste up near its on/off switch and now it pays me little mind. (I'll soon buy another; and in the meantime I've decided to use my old iMac's keyboard! Of course, it still works!)
(Remember the TV show, Laugh In? It featured a Bell Telephone operator (played -and well!- by Lily Tomlin!); her signature line was "Is this the party to whom I am speaking?" Funny stuff, back then.
To reprise a topic you've only dangled like a tired worm in the placid waters, did you ever read U.S. Grant's memoir, mostly about soldiering? (Very good,! Or George Custer's, mostly about how hard it is to live a civilized life "On the Plains" (Mostly tedious.)? America still has many first-rate military historians...when politics is shelved for serious work.
You might read, also, the book Jeff Davis "hisself" wrote, after the war... (Lincoln was overly generous with the southern die-hards. :(