Leo has found the fountain of youth!

[Mt_Goat]

I see you changer your avitar to a younger portrait. Is this a mid-life crisis or are you just ready for a change. come on you can share as I'm a little older. (wink, wink)

[TBonZ]

LOL, I noticed that too and thought the same thing!! ;D

[Leonardo]

The avatars I am using are of great military leaders. I am fascinated by War Between the States history. My avatar theme for the forseeable future is generals from that epoch. Lee was the natural first choice, as I see him as having the most honesty and good character of any of the famous generals, both Confederate and Union. At his prime, he was also a brilliant strategist, consistently winning against Armies two and three times the size of his own. U.S. Grant is selected now. Often unjustly maligned in history, he is accurately summed up: straight-forward, individualistic, strategically savvy, determined, bold, and unconventional when opportune.

Future picks - Beauregard, Gordon, Hood, J.E.B. Stewart, Jackson.

[primesuspect]

Leonardo said
prime is also a brilliant strategist, consistently winning against Armies two and three times the size of his own. Often unjustly maligned, he is accurately summed up: straight-forward, individualistic, strategically savvy, determined, bold, and unconventional when opportune.

Future picks - mediaman, shorty, and General Keebler.

WOW! Thanks, Leo! That's a really nice thing to say!

[Marsupial]

I prefer my picture of General Lee in action
http://www.dukefarm.com/images/hazzard/new/filmjump.jpg

rofl

[Leonardo]

mid-life crisis

My furry rear end! :shakehead I'm only 42, have mostly blond hair (hint of gray), work out four or five times a week, and am completely healthy. I intend on starting a second career about one year from now, running rings around the young college graduates who will be half my age.

[Leonardo]

General Keebler

What, War Between the Bakeries?

[LawnMM]

Leonardo said
mid-life crisis

My furry rear end! :shakehead I'm only 42, have mostly blond hair (hint of gray), work out four or five times a week, and am completely healthy. I intend on starting a second career about one year from now, running rings around the young college graduates who will be half my age.

In what arena? Athleticism?

[Leonardo]

Obviously not... well except for the ones who've spent most of their lives in front of TVs, computers, and game consoles.

[GHoosdum]

Nice picks, Leo. I like to study Civil War history myself. A good read: Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War

I too think that Lee was one of the most honorable men in American History. What most people don't know is that he was practically an abolitionist, and he almost fought for the North instead because of it, but his home state went South, so... (plus there was that whole thing with the promotion...)

[LawnMM]

Leonardo said
Obviously not... well except for the ones who've spent most of their lives in front of TVs, computers, and game consoles.

Why not? Yer only 42...

I think thats refreshing, not to mention funny as hell, give the dumb young jocks a run for their money dude

[a2jfreak]

I prefer a picture of Daisy Duke

Marsupial said
I prefer my picture of General Lee in action
http://www.dukefarm.com/images/hazzard/new/filmjump.jpg

rofl

[Mt_Goat]

Leonardo said


My furry rear end! :shakehead I'm only 42, have mostly blond hair (hint of gray), work out four or five times a week, and am completely healthy. I intend on starting a second career about one year from now, running rings around the young college graduates who will be half my age.
I was just seeing if it would get your attention or not. :nudge:

I just couldn't help but notice the change as you have had that pic of Gen. Lee for your avitar for some time and I actually had made a connection between yourself and some of his well known traits. I was doing good physicaly until I fell off the top of a gasoline tanker and literally broke my back. Still haven't lost the weight I gained from the Epidural steriod Injections. So I know you will have no problem keeping healthy.

I like your idea of having pics of WBS Generals for your avitar. It's a great idea. Did you see the movie "Gods and Generals"? It had good and bad points as many movies do but I truely enjoyed the portrayal of the different Generals and thought they did a pretty good job of it. I really liked the job they did with old "Stonewall".


Leonardo said


What, War Between the Bakeries?
That is just too funny! ;D ;D ;D

[Leonardo]

What, War Between the Bakeries?

Having lived in Germany, I learned to love the fresh German baked goods. There is a bakery in every village. When I came back to the US and saw the lousy, overpriced baked fare in our stores and pseudo-bakeries, I wanted to cry. So, General Keebler, perhaps I wasn't making fun of you at all!

MtGoat, I still admire Lee perhaps more than any of the other Civil War generals. Had to move on, though. I've now got to learn from Grant.

[GHoosdum]

How about Sherman? March to the sea, buddy!

[Mt_Goat]

a2jfreak said
I prefer a picture of Daisy Duke

Marsupial said
I prefer my picture of General Lee in action
http://www.dukefarm.com/images/hazzard/new/filmjump.jpg

rofl

Here ya go! :D

[GHoosdum]

How about one of what she looks like now? I promise I'll never read this thread again if someone posts that!

[a2jfreak]

Ahem! I wanted a picture of what Ms. Duke was known for . . . and it wasn't her face! =)

[Clutch]

I remember the good old days, coming home from school to wath them tight jeans on tv, ahhh those were the good ol' days I tell ya.

[primesuspect]

I was gonna say that: She seemed a lot hotter when I was 10......

[Preacher]

Leo,
What about the Mighty Mainer, Joshua Chamberlain? I LOVED The Killer Angels.

[Leonardo]

Killer Angels - film version was HBO's "Gettysburg". Both the book and the movie were outstanding.

Gods and Generals - film version by same name. Book was superb; haven't seen the movie yet.

Michael Shaara wrote Killer Angels. After his death, his son, Jeff, picked up flawlessly where Michael left off. Amazing how he has the same caliber of research and writing that his father had.

Several other books by the Shaaras, all excellent.

Chamberlain is best known for his charge on Little Round Top, which is credited with being one of the decisive engagements allowing the Union to win at Gettysburg. I don't recall him being promoted to general.

Edit: The senior Shaara was Michael, not William. :rolleyes2

[Preacher]

I agree with you on all, Leo. He surely was a general, though when he made the famous charge he was a "lowly" Colonel. Only reason I found out what an interesting person he was is I lived down the street from his house in Brunswick, ME. Here's more info:

http://www.curtislibrary.com/pejepscot/joshbiog.htm

"Although never forgotten in Maine, Chamberlain largely faded from national view for most of the 20th century. No statue of him was ever erected at Gettysburg; few historians studied his campaigns. But amid the surge of interest in the Civil War in the 1990s he has re-emerged as an exemplary figure among the Union generals, the very model of the citizen-soldier. "

[Leonardo]

Preacher,

My wife and I have a great desire to one day make a tour of all the major Civil War battlefields. Each visit would preceded by research on the strategies and tactics employed, and the significant leaders involved.

This will have to wait though, until our children are independent and our income improves.

[Preacher]

That's funny, Leo, because I've always wanted to do the same thing except expanded....I'd like to go see Civil War, WWI, WWII, and even ancient battlefields (like Thermypolae in Greece) all over the world.