OH! My Golly Gracious

I just want to say hello to everyone who as taken the time to visit this blog of mine! I know that there has not been any updates in a long time. I have been trying well I should say struggling with making some money do some writing for other folks but has mostly kept me away from my personal sites but I hope to change that as we speak! Please stay tuned and come back and visit for new content! Other sites of mine will be offering new content and there may even be a new blog. Please tell me what type of relevant information you all would like to see in a blog email me at

Thanks to all my loyal visitors!

Thanks to all my loyal visitors as you have noticed of course no new info here at my blog. I have only been keeping up my obligations at civilwarblogger.com {They pay me} because I have been fighting a bout of tendinitis! It doesn't look as bad as this one but it sure hurt like hell!
Hopefully I will get back up to snuff this week.

Once more Thank you for your loyalty!

Howdy Friends

"I want to first of all Thank all my faithful friends to this blog for taking time to visit
civilwarblogger.com"

I have been adding input on cwb.com about the opening of the new Gettysburg Visitors Center. I have been working with Bob Horner, the creator of LearningwithEase.com an educational process teaching history to the masses.

Currently available at dickbloom.com in the Catalog are products teaching about Jamestown and The Revolutionary War.

Bob is currently researching information about the Civil War which will be available in a quick learn chart much like the Revolutionary War Stair Learning product. Other interesting history products are in the pipeline and are also going to be available on the Catalog page at dickbloom.com as well.

Okay lets get back to the information on the blog!

The images at the top of the blog are a clip from the newly restored Cyclorama Painting and a photo of the Edward Everett
Gettysburg Address Copy.

The Everett Copy was given to him by Lincoln at his request for a remembrance package the long winded orator was putting together to auction off to assist in raising funds for helping the tattered soldiers who fought in the bloody conflicts in the War of the Brothers. Lincoln obliged. The copy has been visiting the new visitors center for three days it is on loan from the Lincoln Museum in Illinois.

The visitors center is huge but it seems as though to me much space has been wasted of course that is only my humble opinion!

The Cyclorama Painting is Great! A wonderful venue for viewing the phenomenon has been created.

My hats off to the restoration crew and I want to; Thank Lisa Hadesman and Dru Neil for the gracious help in my accessing the venue!

This week I will be back to beating the keys on the various topics I bring forth on this blog, I will continue my exploration of "Being a Patriot." Please join the discussion by commenting on my thoughts and positions. Whether pro or con all reasonable input is Welcome.

Till next time Happy trails.

"Success in war,like charity in religion covers a multitude of sins."
Napier

"Waste not, want not. Wilful waste makes woful want.

It has always been more difficult for a man to keep than to get;for,in the one case,fortune aids,but in the other,sense is required. Therefore,we often see a person deficient in cleverness rise to wealth; and than in the want of sense, roll head over hills to the bottom."
Basil

"Sound like anything in the news today?"

Dick Bloom

Patriot Thoughts

Patriots

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"Captured prisoners"

I recently viewed "The Patriot" with Mel Gibson in the lead, he portrayed Ben Martin a man who knew how to fight during the bloody Wilderness Campaign in 1755 but wanted no part of war no more. Unfortunately for the British he felt a vendetta in his heart when his one son was captured and another shot down in cold blood in full sight of his brothers and sisters.

That cruel action by a Brit officer stirred an emotional trigger that brought him to be called by the Brits "a ghost". The reason I bring this up is the word

Dictionary.com definition

"Patriot"
{1. a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion.

2. a person who regards himself or herself as a defender, esp. of individual rights, against presumed interference by the federal government.

3. (initial capital letter) Military. a U.S. Army antiaircraft missile with a range of 37 mi. (60 km) and a 200-lb. (90 kg) warhead, launched from a tracked vehicle with radar and computer guidance and fire control.}
I have given much thought to the controversy that is being brought to light in this smoke and mirror magic show we choose to call an election.

I will be spreading this topic out over several posts!

"I am a veteran. I put my hand up is what makes me a veteran!"
D.Bloom

I worked as a photojournalist for a stretch of years of which included September 11, 2001 for a local newsrag in PA. Over many years and many heart wrenching events from various Veterans and Veterans Organizations. When questioned if I was a vet. I would always reply that I am a Vietnam era vet but not a "Nam" Veteran! The so called true strife which I was lead to believe I raised my hand to help stop, The "communist scourge" or at least the recruiter told me so and once upon a time in a land far far away....blahblah blah.I lost many friends to "Nam"some died there,some died from agent orange,and some from suicide, some are the walking dead still suffering "SHELL SHOCK" yet today Nam vets are dying every day. Some are HOMELESS and know exactly how many homes they OWN...!!

My last comment til next post.... does my hitch {no hero, no gun tot'n,not out of America service} make more of, not as much of, or even a patriot at all in the thoughts on patiotism of the upcoming election? You will see a new poll. Please take it......
Thanks
Happy trails til we meet again!

We may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Speaking to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785.
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
~Benjamin Harrison

A serious looking Custer during the Civil War. More on Custer @ Gettysburg doing some research currently.

Gett'n Up to See down

Thomas Ottenstein wasn't the first man to think that to see the battleground one needed to get a birdseyeview.