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I’m using this video for an assignment for my schoolwork cuz I’m homeschooled!

The first of many powerful tearjerker scenes in the film.

For Ukraine for America

It is rare that soldiers in war can say they fought for something bigger than themselves.

"Just when I thought you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this...and totally redeem yourself."

It is a damn shame they dont teach public speaking the way they used to

"We are an army out to set other men free." Not sure I can think of any cause nobler than that.

Today, 07/01/2023 is the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg

Jeff Daniels embodied Chamberlain. Remarkable performance.

I had the pleasure of seeing “Gettysburg” in the theatre - twice - when it was released in October 1993 (my God, nearly 30 years ago!). Frankly, I when in not expecting much. However, as soon as Edelman's score came up and as the opening credits started to roll, I felt a shiver go down by neck, signaling that this was going to be quite an experience. To be sure, some of the lesser aspects of “Gettysburg” - weak acting by secondary characters, some poorly choreographed fight scenes, fake beards - looked embarrassing on the big screen. However, with the scenes of the 20th Maine’s defense of Little Round Top, General Lee (Martin Sheen) riding among Pickett’s division as they cheer themselves into a frenzy, and the entire sequence of Pickett’s Charge (Longstreet’s Assault), it was impossible not to feel swept up into the action.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is the Dick Winters of the Civil War... a true hero/badass!

The Little Round Top battle was the butterfly effect that changed the course of the world history.

My great grandfather’s brothers served with the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry. My grandson’s great grandparents were enslaved in North Carolina.

A) This still sends shivers down my spine B) Jeff Daniels should have been nominated for an Oscar for this performance

This movie from beginning to end was PERFECT.

Me as a 2nd Mainer: "Is THAT your colonel?" 20th Maine: "Yes, yes he is." Me: "Alright, I'm in."

"We judge you by what you do...not by who your father was" 👏👍🤝

I would ruck up any day and follow him to hell.

There have been three or four movie scenes I have ever watched that actually made me cry. This is the only one that still does.

If only these men saw the country now they made a difference

I'll always remember how I did this for my monologue assignment in my Theatre Class in High School. I have a stutter, so I was so nervous. But when I got on stage, all that went away, I didn't stutter once. It was the first time in my life that I never stumbled on my words, I was 100% fluent, it was such a milestone in my life. I have this scene to thank for making me realize that If I put my mind to it, I can make my stutter disappear if I focus really hard.

Why the hell does this only have 5k views? This is one of the most important films, and scenes in history. Jeff Daniels is great, and the writing is perfect. Everyone should watch this movie. It took them over a decade to make it. I watch it every chance I get.

Slava Ukraine.

This should be shown to the defenders of Ukraine.

I just read that 114 of 120 men joined General Chamberlain, into a unit that already had a 70% casualty rate. So much respect for these men....

..brutal American history...discovered last week in the archives...absolute proof that the War was about economics/taxes and not to free the slaves ( only to deport them ? )....this will be used in future court cases to prove that the socialist hate-filled civil rights organizations have committed HATE CRIMES against a certain group of people - white Southerners with Confederate ancestors...............................................,.................................................................Northern Rascism...proof in the Congressional Record....thanks to Delbert Rhodes....... .............................................. Lincoln Emancipation and Colonization July 16, 1862, Congress and Lincoln begin legislation to deport all people of color from the U.S. and it’s territories. Later, on July 21, Lincoln signed and an act approving $500,000 to begin “colonization”, AKA deportation. 37th Congress. (US) No. 148. REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON EMANCIPATION AND COLONIZATION, In the House of Representatives, July 16, 1862: “It is useless, now, to enter upon any philosophical inquiry whether nature has or has not made the negro inferior to the Caucasian. The belief is indelibly fixed upon the public mind that such inequality does exist. There are irreconcilable differences between the two races which separate them, as with a wall of fire. The home for the African must not be within the limits of the present territory of the Union. The Anglo- American looks upon every acre of our present domain as intended for him, and not for the negro. A home, therefore, must be sought for the African beyond our own limits and in those warmer regions to which his constitution is better adapted than to our own climate, and which doubtless the Almighty intended the colored races should inhabit and cultivate. Much of the objection to emancipation arises from the opposition of a large portion of our people to the inter-mixture of the races, and from the association of white and black labor. The committee would do nothing to favor such a policy; apart from the antipathy which nature has ordained, the presence of a race among us who cannot, and ought not to be admitted to our social and political privileges, will be a perpetual source of injury and inquietude to both. This is a question of color, and is unaffected by the relation of master and slave. The introduction of the negro, whether bond or free, into the same field of labor with the white man, is the opprobrium of the latter... We wish to disabuse our laboring countrymen, and the whole Caucasian race who may seek a home here, of this error... The committee conclude that the highest interests of the white race, whether Anglo-Saxon, Celt, or Scandinavian, require that the whole country should be held and occupied by those races.” That's right,… under the completely Republican controlled U.S. Congress, Lincoln’s Administration is moving to, and approved financing the “colonization” ALL black Americans out of the U.S.: With the 13 states having seceded, the Lincoln led Republicans (a Northeastern sectional party) and Whigs controlled BOTH houses of the 37th Congress. One of their select committees was the “Committee on Emancipation and Colonization.” The resolution from that committee explains exactly what motivated Northern “anti-slavery.” Anti-slavery meant nothing more than “anti-black;” and to rid the country of an “inferior race” to prevent amalgamation. It was this kind of immoral racism that led to Southern secession in the first place. Is it any wonder that the Mississippi Declaration of Secession laments that the North “seeks not to elevate or to support the slave, but to destroy his present condition without providing a better.” “I have urged the colonization of the negroes, and I shall continue. My Emancipation Proclamation was linked with this plan. There is no room for two distinct races of white men in America, much less for two distinct races of whites and blacks. I can conceive of no greater calamity than the assimilation of the negro into our social and political life as our equal.... We can never attain the ideal union our fathers dreamed of, with millions of an alien, inferior race among us, whose assimilation is neither possible nor desirable." Lincoln address delivered at Washington, D.C.; in Roy P. Basler, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume V, pages 371-375 Faced with an inhumane Northern racism, that barred slaves from migrating North or to the territories and wanted them colonized out of the country or landless and penniless to die out, it is no wonder so many African Americans supported and served the Confederacy. General Lee exclaimed: “The best men in the South have long desired to do away with the institution of slavery, and are quite willing to see it abolished. UNLESS SOME HUMANE COURSE, BASED ON WISDOM AND CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES IS ADOPTED, you do them great injustice in setting them free.” (emphasis mine) Lee worked to emancipate the slaves in his father-in-Laws estate starting in 1850 by putting them on a payroll and/or shares, provided training and education under his protection. Lee manumitted (emancipated) all estate slaves by 1862. Howard K. Beale, ed., The Diary of Gideon Welles: Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson, 3 vols. (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1960), 1:70-71; David Donald, ed., Inside Lincoln's Cabinet: The Civil War Diaries of Salmon P. Chase (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1954), 95, 98.

A short moment in the context of a great battle and war, but among the finest examples of command and leadership in all of American history. An awesome performance by actor Jeff Daniels.