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Thad in AR. 
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Posted: 13 Nov 2021 at 6:11am |
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A civil war group I belong to was invited to Berryville Arkansas intermediate school to give a demonstration.
I’m shocked at how well we were received.
We were dressed in full uniform and I even got to show off my original 1861 Springfield .
I was nervous as could be the first round but got comfortable and had a very good time. We spoke with 4 different groups.
We even brought some hard tack to share.
Hoping we maybe struck some interest in some of them.
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DMiller
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Posted: 13 Nov 2021 at 6:50am |
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Kids tend to be voracious as to learning of real history. I was as were my own sibs, still am.
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 13 Nov 2021 at 8:42am |
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YEP... kids soak things up like a sponge... BEST to have VISUAL AIDS.... Uniforms and era rifles would get their attention as compared to reading a book.
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Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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DMiller
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Posted: 13 Nov 2021 at 10:07am |
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This is why the press for CRT inside of ALL Classes and class rooms. The kids suck up that indoctrinating message.
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 13 Nov 2021 at 10:41am |
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This is why the press for CRT inside of ALL Classes and class rooms. The kids suck up that indoctrinating message. |
Exactly
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Posted: 13 Nov 2021 at 11:25pm |
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good job! kids nowadays need more of that kind of learning, get them away from puters awhile.
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Posted: 14 Nov 2021 at 6:19pm |
Here in California(I think it is nation wide but not sure) there is a off shoot of Farm Bureau called Ag in the Classroom. Has different helps for teachers to add ag things into regular class time, copied from animal rights groups  but coming from the other side.
In this county the group has a program it invite every 4th grader classroom out to spend the day at the fair grounds. They see one presentation in the main grandstand for all and then 4, 15 minute presentations in smaller groups. Hopefully one with animals, and about growing a crop, and mechanical things, forth being anything ag related. Then lunch with good fresh food. But always hard to find farm people that will give a day up for kids education. But so vital for so many kids.
So thank you Thad for taking the time to make difference. Because without real people the kooks end up being the ones kids get influenced by. So all of you out there if somebody asks please take time.
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Posted: 15 Nov 2021 at 1:10pm |
Thad in AR. wrote:
A civil war group I belong to was invited to Berryville Arkansas intermediate school to give a demonstration.
I’m shocked at how well we were received.
We were dressed in full uniform and I even got to show off my original 1861 Springfield .
I was nervous as could be the first round but got comfortable and had a very good time. We spoke with 4 different groups.
We even brought some hard tack to share.
Hoping we maybe struck some interest in some of them.
Wait, what? you took a high powered military rifle into a school? And nobody was killed or injured? no out cry from mommies and daddies? sarcasm intended |
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I am still confident of this;
I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord;
be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 15 Nov 2021 at 4:21pm |
LouSWPA wrote:
Thad in AR. wrote:
A civil war group I belong to was invited to Berryville Arkansas intermediate school to give a demonstration.
I’m shocked at how well we were received.
We were dressed in full uniform and I even got to show off my original 1861 Springfield .
I was nervous as could be the first round but got comfortable and had a very good time. We spoke with 4 different groups.
We even brought some hard tack to share.
Hoping we maybe struck some interest in some of them.
Wait, what? you took a high powered military rifle into a school? And nobody was killed or injured? no out cry from mommies and daddies? sarcasm intended |
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‘‘Twas in Berryville Arkansas. Wouldn’t happen on this side of the river. We have hippies over on this side of the county. They’d  and fall back in it.
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Posted: 15 Nov 2021 at 7:16pm |
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But how on Earth did the gun not kill the children?
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"Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 16 Nov 2021 at 5:20am |
thendrix wrote:
But how on Earth did the gun not kill the children? |
I didn’t fill the powder flask or it may have went full auto. That’s what assault weapons do.
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Posted: 16 Nov 2021 at 5:49am |
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"Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan
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