That's gonna look great on your resume!
RE. Liberal jerk on other forum.
Ignore or engage. Guess what is desired by the lib?
I'd state my case once , then ignore.
The human history in my area can be traced back thousands of years. That interests me.
And part of that history exists in relics (things folks left /made/handled) that can confirm history.
Charcoal in a previous fire hearth three feet deep tells us what?
A lithic piece from many miles away from the more common source here means what?
And on through time.
Slavery has been long resolved. The witches burned , (no offence witches) and electric lights rule the night.
Relics of the Civil War (A history we must not deny or forget as it is history that tells us what internal conflict can do to a country)
are not improving in condition below ground.
And while many grounds are hallowed and off limits to recovering relics....Many are not.
Till you have held a button that has a fragile condition from dissolution and study how to preserve it you won't understand what detecting interests are.
But if you ask , who wore this button , where was it made , how did it come to be where it was recovered,what military and if possible what branch or regiment and what years....It's just a button in rough condition to you.
Those former civilians that fought in the civil war can't be polished and presented to you. Many of their relics can not be either. But some can.
That's recent history. Compared to the archaic period...It was yesterday. But it is fading. The old moth and rust doth corrupt route.
I'll note my locales folks. And kin's participation. It makes relics and research literally relate-able. And I research.
Yes 650,000 folks deserve notice. As do their kin affected by the war.
You want to erase history , try.
I'm interested in the memory and preservation of it.
Men left families that would rather have had them home.
Many did not return , others returned dead , and many returned maimed.
Why? Slavery? No.
Feel free to explain slavery as the cause of the Civil War. I've done my research. Thoroughly and un-biased by current political whim. (And what time period is current?)
Men are still leaving home to war.
You may care the politics that launch them , but their mute relics tell more about war and those in it than any politics ever will.
The who why how when and where of a soldiers lost button means little in the future of the world. Or does it?
Should many hundreds of thousands die over political contention?
The button mattered to the soldier , if he lived to note it's loss. It 's a button away from home where buttons don't grow...Ya know? See where it relates? How far from home? Where was home? Who waited there ,and who covered a mans work and defense of home while away serving?
Hold the button. Research it. What can it tell you?
Or is your own "modern" button more important?
Or is tomorrows new button more important?
Any buttons go to war this week? Why?
(That's the kind of stuff (different topics) I drop on posters that get too annoying on another forum...)
