GDG- New Museum introduction

[Margaret D. Blough]

Brenda,

I'm sorry.  On the other hand, the Bills will have other chances.  I suspect that this was Conemaugh Township's only chance for such glory, so I'm glad we got it.

Regards,

Margaret

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> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
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> Margaret, 
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> You had to bring up a painful memory :-) As one who lives in a 
> suburb of Buffalo we were at the other end of the spectrum when the 
> Bills lost with a "wide right" miss of a field goal!! 
> 
> Brenda 
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> Quoting "Margaret D. Blough" : > Esteemed GDG 
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> > Now, now Jim. Everyone is entitled to at least 24 hours of acting 
> > completely insane with joy when their team wins a national title. 
> > You should have been in Conemaugh Township, Somerset County, PA, 
> > where I grew up, when the NY Giants, led by back-up quarterback Jeff 
> > Hostetler, beat the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl. Jeff was a 
> > graduate, like me but some years after me, of Conemaugh Township High 
> > School, a very small rural high school, that would have been 
> > overjoyed to produce anyone who could make it to a major university 
> > football program, would have considered that person making the pros 
> > at all almost too much to hope for, and the possibility that person 
> > would win a Super Bowl ring would have been considered total fantasy. 
> > Basically everyone in the township and the surrounding area, 
> > including the Johnstown newspaper, went berserk with joy, whether or 
> > not they were generally interested in football or not. 
> > 
> > However, if it keeps up, then we must trust in the moderators to know 
> > when to pull the plug (if they can pause in their marathon rendition 
> > of the KU fight song long enough to consider it ). 
> > 
> > Regards, 
> > 
> > Margaret 
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> > -------------- Original message -------------- 
> > From: JIM COOKE 
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> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
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> >> It's as on-topic as all that Jayhawk crap. 
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: denlaw at fone.net 
> >> To: gettysburg at arthes.com 
> >> Sent: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 21:17:23 -0400 (EDT) 
> >> Subject: GDG- New Museum introduction 
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> >> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
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> >> >>>>>>>>>>> 
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> >> And, further, those people have been offended ever since Latschar arrived 
> >> and started talking about something other than the idea that 150,000 brave 
> >> young men spent three days murdering each other because they were brave 
> >> young men. 
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> >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
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> >> Hello, 
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> >> And if the conversation on slavery persists here, we will see some e-mails 
> >> complaining that we are off topic and this is not what the list is for. 
> >> 
> >> The traditional vehicle for discussing the war has been to exclude slavery. 
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> >> It is a hard model to change. 
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> >> That is why I admire Latscahr, not for the bricks and mortar he 
> >> stacked, but his 
> >> insistence on the completeness of the story told within. 
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> >> Take Care 
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> >> Dennis 
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