OK.....  I agree Antietam precipated the Emancipation proclamation and that was a big deal.  And whatever #2 was, I think I more or less agreed.  But #3, the "Massacre at Mystic".  I gotta admit I never heard of that.  At first sounding I thought it was a northern version of Opechacanogh attacking the Jamestown  settlers, but no....... it was the good Puritans who were the massacers and the Pequoit Indians who were the massecres.  Terrible, but then we cannot change the past.  The thread that this seems to start were the massacres by the US cavalry in the 1800;s.  (Although I note that they left out the facts that descedents of those good Puritans also took it upon themselves to pull off two un-provoked attacks on Ft. Lousibourg Nova Scotia in the mid 1760's.  Maybe they just had a mean streak.)

However, given that THE TEN DAYS leave out Pearl Harbor and 9/11, can anybody tell me how the ten were chosen?

Randy Cabell

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