Westerns, history & etc.

[Ted Samsel]

Hmm.
   All this western talk reminds me of what a friend told me about
his Fulbright in Skopje, (then) Yugoslavia. He's from a fairly old
local family (but not an FFV: FIRST FAMILY OF VIRGINIA) that never
made it west of the Blue Ridge. He was taken by the amount of "recall"
in Yugoslavia of the Battle of Kossovo (1300's) compared to the
remembrance of the late War of Northron Aggro, that was fought around
here. (Here being Richmond, Virginia). He intimated that Southroners
are mere infants when it comes to "not forgetting their defeat" at
the hands of a hated aggressor.
   I seem to recall that during Ken Burns's PBS THE CIVIL WAR series,
that some woman of the era commented that the war gave many men an
excuse to leave home and become undomesticated.  This would
likely have sent many men west, so that they could continue to
be rowdy and cut up. Let's give history a chance to see how long
memory really is, like in Europe......

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net  *1996* Year of the Accordion~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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