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Posted: 12/21/2005 4:56:34 PM EDT

[#1]

Quoted:
The one between God and Satan.

Let me know how that one turns out.

Posted: 12/21/2005 5:12:25 PM EDT

[#2]

WACO

Posted: 12/21/2005 5:14:33 PM EDT

[#3]

The Naval Battles of Guadalcanal on the midwatch on the nights of November 12 & 13, 1942.

Gettysburg on the 3rd day (Pickett's Charge)

Agincourt

23 Easting

Samar

Omdurman

+1 for Rorke's Drift

LZ X-Ray in the Ia Drang

52 BC Caesar vs. Vercingetorix at Alesia during the Gallic War

+1 for Waterloo

Posted: 12/21/2005 5:24:14 PM EDT

[#4]

The Action off Samar......US DD's and DDE's against Japanese Battleships and Cruisers.

Posted: 12/21/2005 5:24:56 PM EDT

[#5]

The Alamo, from the start of the siege to the finish.

Posted: 12/21/2005 5:26:28 PM EDT

[#6]

The Battle of Leyte Gulf................Surigao Strait to be exact........or the Battle off Cape Esparanso as a close second!!

Posted: 12/21/2005 5:31:51 PM EDT

[#7]

I thought it was 73 Easting? I bet that was a sight, whatever it's called.

Posted: 12/21/2005 5:33:27 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
The Alamo, from the start of the siege to the finish.

+1.......but after that I'd like to fast forward to the sleeping mexican army being taken by suprise and having their collective asses handed to them at San Jacinto.......REMEMBER THE ALAMO!!!

Posted: 12/21/2005 5:38:29 PM EDT

[#9]

+another on Hiroshima with the firebombing of Tokyo second. Burn baby burn!

Posted: 12/21/2005 5:38:43 PM EDT

[#10]

Salamis

Phillipi

Posted: 12/21/2005 5:40:27 PM EDT

[#11]

Tarawa

Posted: 12/21/2005 5:41:22 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
The one between God and Satan.

I would love to see armageddon

Posted: 12/21/2005 5:42:46 PM EDT

[#13]

The final battle between good and evil.

After which all the evil democrats that have been taken prisoner will be killed.

Posted: 12/21/2005 5:43:50 PM EDT

[#14]

Lexington/Concord

Posted: 12/21/2005 5:48:46 PM EDT

[#15]

Thermopylae.

We do this about once everyother month.

I'd also like to have seen the pinning down and extermination of the NVA company by Carlos Hathcock and John Burke.

Posted: 12/21/2005 5:58:47 PM EDT

[#16]

The next nuclear war, but I wouldnt be suprised if a bunch of us might have front-row seats already reserved.

Kharn

Posted: 12/21/2005 6:00:19 PM EDT

[#17]

Canae
Ayacucho
Carabobo
Shiloh
Okinawa
Operation Chromite
Dien Bien Phu
Ia Drang

Posted: 12/21/2005 6:02:12 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Lexington/Concord

+1

I've been reading some books about early america lately. Goddamn, gives me a boner just thinking about it.

What a pathetic loser I am by comparison to those men.

Posted: 12/21/2005 6:03:30 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
The next nuclear war, but I wouldnt be suprised if a bunch of us might have front-row seats already reserved.

Kharn

I bet you do. I know most of Arkansas does. We used to be one big sac missle base. You could go riding 4 wheelers out in the country side and come along a big bomb proof door. Now most of em have been sold to mushroom farmers and a few to people livin in em. But I bet a few of em still have the big kaboomers in em.

Posted: 12/21/2005 6:09:38 PM EDT

[#20]

The Battle of Cowpens, January 17, 1781. Help change the war. Nothing like the militia beating the crap out of regulars. Close second would be The Battle of Kings Mountian fought on October 7, 1780.

Posted: 12/21/2005 6:13:23 PM EDT

[#21]

The future one (hopefully) where all the religious nuts drink the "special" kool-aid!

"The one between God and Satan."
"Battle for life-- fetus pre-abortion"

Posted: 12/21/2005 6:14:00 PM EDT

[#22]

Thermopylae

Posted: 12/21/2005 6:14:09 PM EDT

[#23]

Midway

Posted: 12/21/2005 6:34:29 PM EDT

[#24]

Battle of the Bulge, through its entirety.
Stalingrad.
Thermopylae.
1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada.

Ohio State vs USC, 9/13/08.

Posted: 12/21/2005 6:44:04 PM EDT

[#25]

I don't know if you could call it a battle, but I'd like to have seen Gunny Hathcock take out that 50 or so VC at elephant valley in Vietnam.

ETA Battle of Adobe Wells too.

Posted: 12/21/2005 6:44:49 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
I don't know if you could call it a battle, but I'd like to have seen Gunny Hathcock take out that 50 or so VC at elephant valley in Vietnam.

Look up about 4 posts lol.

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:14:11 PM EDT

[#27]

one of the ones my father was in during Vietnam

I need to know why he still wakes up from nightmares 30 years later

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:15:11 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Thermopyle

"Molon Labe.. bitch."

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:17:15 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Thermopyle

"Molon Labe.. bitch."

I said son of a bitch a few times tonight. As I was getting that tattoo'd down my shin.

μολων λαβε

Don't get tattoo'd on your shins

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:20:25 PM EDT

[#30]

Its a tie between D-day and the Second Battle of Bull Run.

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:20:51 PM EDT

[#31]

Borodino

The French soldiers actually fought well in this battle. But it was a pyric victory

The Battle of Borodino
French soldiers were actually brave here. But Napoleon’s tactics squandered them away in a stupid head on battle of attrition.

After that Normandy Beach again.

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:20:56 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
+another on Hiroshima with the firebombing of Tokyo second. Burn baby burn!

Ummm...I really don't think you would like either.

I knew a gent who was in the 20th AF. He bombed Tokyo on the night of March 11, 1945 when we killed about 100,000 Japs. They bombed from 9,000ft. The smoke cloud from the firestorm went much higher. He said the stench from burning flesh made the crew sick to their stomachs.

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:22:42 PM EDT

[#33]

Something epic.

Maybe Sekigahara.

It must be insane to witness huge massed formations of soldiers fighting on an open field.

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:23:26 PM EDT

[#34]

Damn...hard to decide, Thermopylae, Deim Bein Phu or Little Big Horn....

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:27:03 PM EDT

[#35]

Iwo Jima

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:30:40 PM EDT

[#36]

1. Yorktown (last battle of American Revolution)
2. Lexington and Concord (first battles of American Revolution)

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:31:13 PM EDT

[#37]

I'd rather watch a campaign, personally...

North Africa in WWII, or following 3rd Army thru Europe....

If I had to pick one 'battle', I'd go with the Ardennes (aka 'The Bulge') in WWII...

Kursk or El Alamein, as well...

Maybe watch the 6-day war...

Come to think of it, there hasn't been a real good, two-sided tank fight involving the US since WWII (ODS didn't count - the fight was so one-sided that the Abrams maintained a perfect crew-survivability record (WRT enemy fire) all the way thru the end of major-combat in OIF)... Of course, one sided battles are better for the troops involved, but to watch history happen, a rout is a little less appealing...

Maybe go back and watch the 48 or 67 wars... Israel is probably the last country to have such an action...

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:34:36 PM EDT

[#38]

09-12-95 The night I told my 3rd wife I wuz divorcing her......bitch damn near killed me ! ! !

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:40:36 PM EDT

[#39]

The SowWein River Gorge attack by the AVG (Flying Tigers). Just seeing an entire column, the spearhead of the Japanese Army being tore up by those few planes would give me a giant boner.

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:42:09 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Lexington/Concord

+1

I've been reading some books about early america lately. Goddamn, gives me a boner just thinking about it.

What a pathetic loser I am by comparison to those men.

They were indeed great men, even the most ardent patriot today couldn't hold a candle to them.

Early America would have been great to see, thats the way life shouldbe IMO

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:42:34 PM EDT

[#41]

Trojan war. I really just don't buy the trojan horse gag. Wanna see it with my own eyes.

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:43:01 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
The Alamo, from the start of the siege to the finish.

thats my choice

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:43:03 PM EDT

[#43]

Kursk
I think it would be the closest think to acient open field head on battle with modern equipment
and i really like tanks

Posted: 12/21/2005 7:44:03 PM EDT

[#44]

Lexington and Concord. I had a direct descendent who was a Captain in the Militia there. Would have liked to see great great (etc) gramps whacking some redcoats.