Historical event you would have liked to have witnessed?

[Bloodshot Scott]

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 ......

It was my dad's era and I can say for sure some of his friends didn't turn that bad. Some of them are (were) actually police officers in our city and are quite nice guys.

He did know several that evaded the draft - one that went to Canada and two brothers that stole a truck and drove it into private property and waited to get picked up, LOL. My dad went to college so he didn't go to 'Nam but he was in the Reserves. :hatsoff:

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

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

Well, he did marry a wealthy chick and bang her and have several kids. Couldn't have been that bad considering he was 894th out of 899 in the Naval Academy when he was there. :surprise:

 

[TheOrangeCat]

It was my dad's era and I can say for sure some of his friends didn't turn that bad. Some of them are (were) actually police officers in our city and are quite nice guys.

He did know several that evaded the draft - one that went to Canada and two brothers that stole a truck and drove it into private property and waited to get picked up, LOL. My dad went to college so he didn't go to 'Nam but he was in the Reserves. :hatsoff:

Shit, no judgement here ... fight for a country you believe in, but not the cause; ... fight because you believe in the country and that's all it takes; fight because they are paying your way ..... none of that matters once you start scraping bunkmates' brains off your sleeves .......

 

[DJCowboy]

I would have loved to have seen when man first learned to control fire and also when they learned agriculture.

I would have liked to have seen the pyramids being built

Rome in its glory days

 

[Stephen1956]

I would like to be the navigator on the Navy plane my Uncle flew off the Hornet (CV-12) during World War 2, in the Pacific. He never spoke about it.

 

[Kingfisher]

The construction of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, 280 BC.
The day the language of the birds came to be.
The Tambora Volcanic Eruption, which displaced 100 cubic kilometers of earth back in 1815.
The Tunguska Event in 1908.
The day before the Sickle/Hammer Soviet flag came down over Red Square. I never got to see it in person, and am still bummed about it.

 

[monicasilver]

The Last Supper
Aleric sacking Rome
John Adams' defense of the British soldiers in 1770.
Any dinner with Nicola Tesla

 

[TheOrangeCat]

The Last Supper
Aleric sacking Rome
John Adams' defense of the British soldiers in 1770.
Any dinner with Nicola Tesla

Did Nikola Tesla actually eat? I though he just absorbed energy and was generally 300 years before his time ....:bowdown:

 

[Tittyman5000]

The time when Christ turned water into wine and the bread/fish thing! That must of been some party!

 

[TheOrangeCat]

The time when Christ turned water into wine and the bread/fish thing! That must of been some party!

Or we can just do that now, given that it was all made up anyway .. I have a tin of sardines in the cupboard and some left over Jacob's Creek ..... and there's a guy that lives two doors down that would believe me if I told him I was Niel Armstrong, so there's at least one gullible fool (sorry, disciple) to be going on with ....

 

[buddyfry5]

Id would have liked to see when dinosaurs went extinct..
And maybe when the universe was created??
I also wouldnt mind seeing Pearl Harbor from a boat that didnt sink or a plane that wasnt shot down.

 

[blindedinchains]

Ancient Greece
dinosaurs

 

[TheOrangeCat]

Id would have liked to see when dinosaurs went extinct.. interesting, you would have died with them, hence the extinction

And maybe when the universe was created?? you would have been vaporised

I also wouldnt mind seeing Pearl Harbor from a boat that didnt sink or a plane that wasnt shot down. if you were in a plane, you would have been a Japanese pilot, and therefore shot or Kamakazied, on a boat you'd be American, but probably dead from old age or Republicanism by now

These are all very final, terminal wishes .... do you need to talk?

 

[TheOrangeCat]

Alice in Chains' last concert: The Beatles' last concert: The look on John Edwards' face when he realized he was, actually, fucked: The moment John Lennon began to transcribe the opening bars of Imagine from the noodles on his piano: the view from the capsule as Armstrong hit Moon dirt: Orson Welles' shooting Citizen Kane (still the greatest entertainment scam of all time): the moment Sergio Leone realized just what he had on his hands with Clint: the birth of Hitler (disguised as a doctor and armed with a formaldehyde rag): the view from the bomb bay doors of Enola Gay: the view from the NASA Mission Director's chair of the first images of Mars: the moment we finally break free of this planet and start to explore the universe together, in peace ....

 

[monicasilver]

Did Nikola Tesla actually eat? I though he just absorbed energy and was generally 300 years before his time ....:bowdown:

Well said.

I'm not sure about eating, but he did drink wiskey.

 

[TheOrangeCat]

Well said.

he did drink wiskey.

further proof of his awesomeness ... and I'm sure it was a decent single malt too: maybe even a Highland single ...... BTW: have you ever seen The Prestige?

 

[Red XXX]

Oliver Cromwell's dismissal of the Rump Parliament.

 

[hotslutsrgood]

Lou Gehrigs farewell
1966 world cup final
Battle Of Berlin
Alexander The Great era
the 300 spartans

 

[Deepcover]

The JFK assassination at Dealey Plaza, The assassinations of Malcolm X, MLK, RFK, Landing on the moon, the birth of Christ, Alexander The Great conquering the Persian Empire, Napoleon Bonparte's Napoleonic Wars, The Battle Of Britain, The Halocaust, The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, The Attica Prison riot of 1971, The Vietnam protests in Washington, The New York City draft riots, The Civil Wars, Princess Di getting married, and Alfred Hitchcock being knighted.

 

[monicasilver]

further proof of his awesomeness ... and I'm sure it was a decent single malt too: maybe even a Highland single ...... BTW: have you ever seen The Prestige?

I have not...should I search for it?