"Thanks for letting me say my piece, as irrelevant as it is to the study of the Civil War."

Well said, Commander, except for the above. We, more than most, have learned a little from our study of our collective pasts. That makes your and our thoughts and comments very relevant to the present and that past. One of Jimmy Carter's worst mistakes was the creation of the Federal Department of Education. Schools have not been right since. And who changed the War Department's name to the Department of Defense? It's hard to win a war you haven't the gumption to call a war. Stan