Re: Southern military representation

["Bob Dove" <swan@haysco.net>]

I am from Texas. As long as I was in Korea my rifle was never more than an
arm's length away. Except for the rare times we got to bathe in a stream.
And then it was less than an arm's length away from the guy guarding the
weapons stacked on the stream bank. In North Korea I slept with it in my
sleeping bag to keep the mechanism from freezing. I turned in my rifle at
the aid station when I was evacuated, and I have never owned one since then.



----- Original Message -----
From: "GerneyLee Carter" <cartergramling@msn.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: Southern military representation


> Don, Whoa!
>    Pennsylvania has more guns per capita than any other state in the
union.
> My brothers never miss a thing they aim at.  My neice hunts with a muzzel
> loader.  My father too.  I take issue with your analysis that the
> northererns were not as used to guns.
>    We close everything up here in PA for the first day of Deer Season.
Our
> Schools are closed.  From reading history of the revolution, the best
shots
> were the boys from PA  and who had few requirements in terms of their
needs.
>   Rough Germans probably, the same ones that George Washington thought
were
> babarians!
>       Last I check Pennsylvania was the north.
>
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> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Donald McElfresh <a0019874@airmail.net>
> Reply-To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
> To: KOREAN-WAR-L <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ukans.edu>
> Subject: Southern military representation
> Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 09:18:00 -0500
>
> As I remember, and the comments date back to the Civil War, the
> Northerners are typical urban dwellers and the Southerners are typically
> rural dwellers. Those from the rural areas have more exposure to hunting
> and use of weapons than those in the cities. Obviously, there have been
> a lot of Yankee hunters, but not proportionaltely so. This exposure also
> extended to Southern cavalry during the Civil War. I'm from Chicago and
> learned about weapons in my high school ROTC (1946-48) before I went to
> Boot Camp (I had top shooting scores in my company) in February 1949.
> However, most Yankees at that time weren't that familiar with weapons
> (Springfield, Garand, carbine, grease gun and .45).  Of course times are
> different now, now many city kids "cut their teeth" on weapons, for the
> wrong reasons.
>
> Also, at present I think you would have to separate the Eastern
> Southerners, from the Western Southerns, due to urbanization and
> interstate relocations in the west. However, my brother-in-law and his
> grandsons are rednecks from Oklahoma, and can outshoot just about
> anybody I've seen lately.
>
> Don
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> Regards, Gernilee
>
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