Historical event you would have liked to have witnessed?

[Ace Bandage]

The 1908 World Series.

 

[TheOrangeCat]

Lewinsky & Bill making a dress mess ......

 

[TheOrangeCat]

The Sandinistas taking over Managua.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Resurrection of Christ.

The Middle Ages crusades.

The Vikings who preceded Christopher Columbus in finding North America.

Christopher Columbus.

America beating the shit out of Mexico to take over the American southwest.

The Civil War.

Vietnam War.

 

[TheOrangeCat]

Vietnam.

Witnessed how? As a combatant, or as a non-combatant?

 

[Mr_Balls]

The founding of Las Vegas

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Witnessed how? As a combatant, or as a non-combatant?

Either way that would see me come back in one piece.

 

[Jagger69]

Intriguing question and very difficult to answer. If forced to pick just one, I suppose I would have to choose the assassination of JFK. Observing it in retrospect and knowing what speculation there is about what actually happened that fateful day, I'd be sure to have a video camera with me with a great view of the grassy knoll.

 

[Bearded_Menace]

Either way that would see me come back in one piece.

Trust me, if you were apart of that war, or any war for that matter, coming back in one piece isn't an option. You WILL lose something be it your life, comrades, bits of your humanity or your sanity. From a completely historical aspect, though, I can understand why one would want to see it. I think seeing the Civil War & and Reconstruction eras would be high up on my list of things to see in history. I would also have loved to witness the Roman empire from the first Punic war up until around 150 A.D.

 

[Ulysses31]

Either way that would see me come back in one piece.

Which piece?

 

[Johan]

Burning of Joan of Arch
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette trials
The writing of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
De Gaulle's 8th June BBC speech
Battle of Austerlitz
Battle of Gergovia (the Gauls defeating the Romans, Gauls were finally defeated in Alesia)
Battle of Stirling (Braveheart)

 

[LukeEl]

I would like to go back to the signing of the Constitution and Bill or Rights so I can white out about 90% of it and tell the delegation that in 250 or so your descendents and others especially the ones in government consider these documents irrelavent.

 

[meesterperfect]

Intriguing question and very difficult to answer. If forced to pick just one, I suppose I would have to choose the assassination of JFK. Observing it in retrospect and knowing what speculation there is about what actually happened that fateful day, I'd be sure to have a video camera with me with a great view of the grassy knoll.

Yeah instead of the zapruder film we'd have the Jagger69 film..

I would have liked to be there too.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Trust me, if you were apart of that war, or any war for that matter, coming back in one piece isn't an option. You WILL lose something be it your life, comrades, bits of your humanity or your sanity. From a completely historical aspect, though, I can understand why one would want to see it. I think seeing the Civil War & and Reconstruction eras would be high up on my list of things to see in history. I would also have loved to witness the Roman empire from the first Punic war up until around 150 A.D.

Which piece?

Physically, of course. If McCain can spend 4+ years in the Hanoi Hilton and be of relative sound mind I've no doubt I could have hacked 365 days of combat (give or take) and not been Tom Cruise in Born on the 4th of July.

 

[meesterperfect]

bold statement scott.I'm sure a lot of dead and maimed soldiers throughout history have felt the same.

I would like to go back to the signing of the Constitution and Bill or Rights so I can white out about 90% of it and tell the delegation that in 250 or so your descendents and others especially the ones in government consider these documents irrelavent.

that's so ridiculous Luke.
White out wasn't even invented until the 1950's.
But maybe Ben franklin could have whipped up a crude subsitute for you if you bought him a couple of pints.

 

[tiger1977]

The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago

Aristotle debating in the agora

The Druids erecting Stonehendge

The dinosaurs

 

[TheOrangeCat]

Either way that would see me come back in one piece.

Amen ..... I say that as a military brat who grew up etc etc, inside various global 'hot spots', and who went on to get involved (one way or another) in certain conflicts .... Honestly, even with what I have learned and heard personally and, shared with K, V and other conflict vets, some odd part of me wishes I could have been there to experience exactly what Vietnam was then ... it was a defining conflict: socially, militarily, politically ..... maybe even more so than WW11.

Problem is, all those I know that were there and survived it, never lived past it.

I can take you too them now, nursing their $1 beers and $2 Marlboro, in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Mexico .. and they all wish they could go home.

Trouble is (^) their home no longer exists ... precisely because of what they had to do, endure and give up.

And so it goes on ......

 

[bahodeme]

For me it would be difficult to witness some of the historic events (ie. JFK, RFK, Malcolm X, and other assassinations) and not intervene. So I'll choose seeing Cab Calloway, The Nickolas Brothers & Hendrix at the apex of their careers.

 

[Zolf J. Kimbly]

Physically, of course. If McCain can spend 4+ years in the Hanoi Hilton and be of relative sound mind I've no doubt I could have hacked 365 days of combat (give or take) and not been Tom Cruise in Born on the 4th of July.

bad example scotty

mccain cant lift his arms past a certain height due to all those years of torture

me being me just thought i'd throw that out there

you can thank me later

i take cash usually

but me gettin positive rep from you has gotta be worth more than gold

 

[busaguy79]

Would of liked to be there and hear, and feel the power of the Saturn V rocket taking off heading for the moon, back when we were #1!