December 18 (A Double...For Me!)
1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery, was declared in effect: U.S. Civil War.
The words of the Declaration of Independence should have been enough to grant blacks freedom, but it wasn’t to be.
Slavery is definitely a sore spot on our nation’s history, but much has been done to right this wrong - including the deaths of hundreds of thousands of white Americans in the Civil War.
Hopefully the pain will end someday, and blacks will be accepted by all of American society...I'm equally hopeful blacks will eventually accept all of American society as well.
The combination of these two ideas is when the real healing will begin.
2000 - My second baby was born. One of the handful of greatest days in my life...Brooklyn Nicole. She's not a little girl anymore, but she'll always be my baby.
I love you, Brookie.
1118 - Afonso the Battler, Christian King of Aragon, captured Saragossa, a major blow to Muslim Spain.
This was one of the first successes in the Spanish Reconquista...Modern day Spaniards better read their history, or they are likely to find themselves in a reverse process - an Islamic Reconquista.
Most don't know it, but Spain was ruled by Islam for over 700 years (711-1492). It has been under Christian rule for a little over 500 years...And a rule in Islamic dogma is 'any land ruled by Islam must be forever ruled by Islam.' Don't think for a minute they won't try to reclaim this - and every other - former land.
1862 - General U.S. Grant announced the organization of his army, with generals Sherman, Hurlbut, McPherson, and McClernand as his corps commanders: U.S. Civil War.
Lincoln scoured the Army for a general who could lead the Union force to victory, and there was no way anyone would have ever guessed that man would be U.S. Grant...But history is filled with bizarre twists, and Grant proved to be a fighting general who chose a brilliant supporting cast.
1915 - President Woodrow Wilson, a widower for one year, married Edith Bolling Galt.
Edith was the first female President of the U.S...Some will get this reference, some won't. If you don't, check out Mrs. Wilson's Stewardship.
1940 - Adolf Hitler signed a secret directive ordering preparations for a Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union: WWII.
He said he'd do it, and he did...Just as he did with everything else in his reign of terror.
Unfortunately, the rest of the world thought he was bluffing...A costly fact, which cost the world over 50,000,000 lives and immeasurable suffering.
1944 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans, but also said undeniably loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry could not be detained: WWII.
War is Hell, and in Hell civil rights are often trampled on...Of course Japanese-American internment was a blight on American history, but it was the proper thing to do at the time.
We will do it again, eventually...Unless American Muslims take a new tune.
1997 - President Bill Clinton extended indefinitely the deadline for withdrawal of U.S. troops helping with the U.N. peacekeeping effort in Bosnia.
A true national security issue...Unlike Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11. Riiiiight.
The words of the Declaration of Independence should have been enough to grant blacks freedom, but it wasn’t to be.
Slavery is definitely a sore spot on our nation’s history, but much has been done to right this wrong - including the deaths of hundreds of thousands of white Americans in the Civil War.
Hopefully the pain will end someday, and blacks will be accepted by all of American society...I'm equally hopeful blacks will eventually accept all of American society as well.
The combination of these two ideas is when the real healing will begin.
2000 - My second baby was born. One of the handful of greatest days in my life...Brooklyn Nicole. She's not a little girl anymore, but she'll always be my baby.
I love you, Brookie.
1118 - Afonso the Battler, Christian King of Aragon, captured Saragossa, a major blow to Muslim Spain.
This was one of the first successes in the Spanish Reconquista...Modern day Spaniards better read their history, or they are likely to find themselves in a reverse process - an Islamic Reconquista.
Most don't know it, but Spain was ruled by Islam for over 700 years (711-1492). It has been under Christian rule for a little over 500 years...And a rule in Islamic dogma is 'any land ruled by Islam must be forever ruled by Islam.' Don't think for a minute they won't try to reclaim this - and every other - former land.
1862 - General U.S. Grant announced the organization of his army, with generals Sherman, Hurlbut, McPherson, and McClernand as his corps commanders: U.S. Civil War.
Lincoln scoured the Army for a general who could lead the Union force to victory, and there was no way anyone would have ever guessed that man would be U.S. Grant...But history is filled with bizarre twists, and Grant proved to be a fighting general who chose a brilliant supporting cast.
1915 - President Woodrow Wilson, a widower for one year, married Edith Bolling Galt.
Edith was the first female President of the U.S...Some will get this reference, some won't. If you don't, check out Mrs. Wilson's Stewardship.
1940 - Adolf Hitler signed a secret directive ordering preparations for a Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union: WWII.
He said he'd do it, and he did...Just as he did with everything else in his reign of terror.
Unfortunately, the rest of the world thought he was bluffing...A costly fact, which cost the world over 50,000,000 lives and immeasurable suffering.
1944 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans, but also said undeniably loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry could not be detained: WWII.
War is Hell, and in Hell civil rights are often trampled on...Of course Japanese-American internment was a blight on American history, but it was the proper thing to do at the time.
We will do it again, eventually...Unless American Muslims take a new tune.
1997 - President Bill Clinton extended indefinitely the deadline for withdrawal of U.S. troops helping with the U.N. peacekeeping effort in Bosnia.
A true national security issue...Unlike Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11. Riiiiight.
Labels: Civil War, Constitution, Germany, Grant, Hitler, Islam, Japan, Spain, US, WWII
posted by Poison Pero @ Monday, December 17, 2018
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