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Posted: 12/21/2005 3:30:36 PM EDT
...which one would it be? Assume that you can do so without harm. Personally, I'd want to see Thermopylae. I thought about D-Day also, but I'm not sure I could stomach seeing so many young American boys killed right in front of me. |
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Waterloo.
I imagine I'd have nightmare. But to see the redcoats rally, and the French run... |
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Thermopyle
Bannockburn June 23-24 1314 Bunker Hill, Concorde, Yorktown etc... Ft. McHenry, September 13-14 1814 New Orleans january 8 1815 D-Day Midway Too many to name really. |
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You do that every day. No thanks… Standing by to watch mass slaughter is not my ideal day. |
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+1 Aviator |
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+1, Thermopylae |
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Battle for liberty-- Warsaw Ghetto
Battle for life-- fetus pre-abortion |
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Naw, that one will be over quick. |
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whatever the battle was that the city-state of Troy was captured and destroyed. I want to see what the greeks' Trojan Horse really looked like, or if it existed at all.
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Thermopylae is a good choice.
I think I might pick Lexington and Concord or Saratoga though. Maybe Waterloo. -K |
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Can't go wrong with Thermopylae, but Crécy would also be interesting.
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The second battle between Alexander's forces and Darius, right before Darius's own men killed him.
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Hiroshima.
Not really a battle.....but I would have like to have seen that. |
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The First Battle of Bull Run always fascinated me. Imagine 95% of the men there have never been in battle before. And all the Washington civilians fleeing back to town when the expected "final" battle turned out to just be the start of a long war.
And asking General Bee what he meant about his line referring to "Stonewall" Jackson |
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Balaclava
Cowpens Gallipoli Thermopylae is also a good choice There was a thread about this in the History forum awhile back |
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The battle at Wolf 359.
Ok, seriously, probably as previously mentioned- D-Day and Gettysburg. |
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I am not sure I'd like to watch Gallipoli. Good men getting mown down by machine gun fire because of incompetent British leadership is not something I'd like to watch. |
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You know, I hadn't thought about that, but you might be on to something. Being onboard the Enola Gay would have been quite the adventure that day. |
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I think if you could get to experience almost all the different battles on D-Day with all the different services, I think it would give you a great respec for the soldiers of the armed forces.
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I'm not up on my ancient history battles, but in more recent times...
Little Big Horn. Attack on Pearl Harbor (if it can be called a battle). D-Day. Stalingrad. Midway. |
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Kursk.
5,000 tanks going head to head on a vast open plain had to be quite a sight! |
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[Quote= Dave Lister] The Trojans having being layed seige to for a decade suddenly wake up to find the Greek army gone, and a large wooden horse left outside the city. A wooden horse LARGE enough to hold 500 Greek warriors, full dressed for battle, AND toilet facilities, and they pull it INSIDE the city and go and have an early night? beware of Trojans, they are complete smegheads. |
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Ooooh good pick!
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"In all of history"? Then I want to see the biggest battle in all of history, and take pictures and video! (...in a galaxy far, far away... and I wouldn't doubt for a second that that is the case)
Of course if we're limiting this to battles in known human history, I think I'd want to see the one between Leonidas and Xerxes ("Molon Labe!"). |
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Another good quote....
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Do you mean when Lucifer is booted out of Heaven with a third of his angels or the battle in Revelation? I want to see the three days when Jesus is in hell getting the keys back, Yeah baby! |
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