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Demsrule86

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12. My Mothers great great something used to tell the Vicksburg tale when I was a child. She was older

Wed May 27, 2020, 08:51 AM

May 2020

than dirt and pinched the hell out of my cheeks...well I refused to eat the dinner she prepared as I was convinced she had cooked rats and not chicken...funny story but true...I was maybe six. My Mothers family is from Virginia...in between Navy assignments we either went to Chicago or Virginia (various places). Now every member of my Virginia family save one cousin are deep blue...and my that cousin won't vote for Trump. He may very well vote Biden.

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They ate Rats at Vicksburg [View all] TEB May 2020 OP

You are such a great dad cyclonefence May 2020 #1

I agree TEB May 2020 #2

They should DownriverDem May 2020 #9

I agree with you cyclonefence May 2020 #13

My dad's g-father fought at Vicksburg with 11thIA Infantry. Reenlisted there bobbieinok May 2020 #3

They were fine men TEB May 2020 #4

Who DownriverDem May 2020 #10

The soldiers who fought and suffered TEB May 2020 #11

The final confederate flag Historic NY May 2020 #5

Accepted by the 25 year old "Boy General" George Armstrong Custer. Marcuse May 2020 #7

The South's gonna do it again though, right? You know, LOSE. czarjak May 2020 #6

In 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War, desperate appalachiablue May 2020 #8

My Mothers great great something used to tell the Vicksburg tale when I was a child. She was older Demsrule86 May 2020 #12

Northerners flying the slavery flag are bad enough. Aristus May 2020 #14