[gregebowman]

Still haven't seen G&G. Want to, but now after reading this thread, I just might wait for it to come on HBO before I buy the dvd. I need to get Gettysberg, but haven't bought it yet. And there's the collector's edition for Glory I want to buy also. I did watch Gettsyberg at the theatre, and I did look at my watch. It was a good movie, and we did have an intermission, but maybe they could have done a LOTR thing and made it into 2 movies. My butt sure was sore after sitting through that.

For some reason, when I was going through school, the civil war really wasn't taught. Sure, we studied what led up to it, and the Restoration, but as far as the actual 4 year period with all of the battles, I don't really remember anything from my history classes on this subject. It's not like it could have been a sensitive subject in Oklahoma; after all, we weren't even a state back then, and there was only some small scuffle that happened somewhere in the territory. I've learned more about the war since Gettsyberg came out than I ever did in school. And that's a shame. I wander when my son goes to school, how much they'll touch on the subject.