Friday, July 2, 2010
JULY 1,2,3
So today, July 2nd is the anniversary for day 2 of Gettysburg. Yesterday (and AGAIN today) we have been watching " Gettysburg" on DVD....Having already read KA in May, I wanted to again go over the book, and it was fun to read along as the movie went along....my 13 and 10 year olds, both of which snagged my KA book and read it, watched the movie with me yesterday (the 10 year old put it in again today). I LOVE Chamberlain and have such respect and sorrow for Longstreet and what he "had" to do under orders from Lee. Dang, I would have strangled Stuart....think if he had actually done his job, how the entire Gettysburg battle and the entire war for that matter may have been different?! If you haven't seen the movie, after having read these books and learned so much, this movie is a GREAT watch for this July 4th weekend when we are all in the "freedom thinking" mode.
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I'm glad to see someone else making note of the date correlations. It's been fun for me to do my learning logs for Killer Angels on July 1,2 & 3. I purposely read the book first and then did the logs so that I could just learn from and enjoy the reading.
ReplyDeleteI would also recommend the movie after reading the book. Like most movies from books, however, I prefer the book. Still, the movie was worth watching and gave me some great visuals. I was amazed that the filmmaker got the National Park's cooperation in making it right on the battlefield.