What historical event fascinates you the most?

Daily writing prompt

I’ve always been a history nerd. There are so many things I would like to go back and witness. Today’s response to the daily writing prompt is going to be a list of things I would go back to see if I could time travel. It’s important to state the rules of time travel though. In my case I would follow the Quantum Leap rules, only not the way Sam did it. I would be Al. Al didn’t actually time travel, he was just able to see what Sam was seeing. He could not interact with anything. He had no affect, and nothing effected him*. He was just a witness. That’s how I want to time travel. I don’t want to step on the wrong bug and change things, you know? Safety first.

So what events would I witness? What are the most fascinating historical events?

• The first moon landing. Wouldn’t it be cool to be there and watch Armstrong come down that ladder? I would probably want to visit all of the moon landings.
• Unfortunately, many of the historical events I am fascinated by are battles. I would want to witness the battle of Gettysburg. Specifically Little Roundtop on the second day, and Pickett’s charge on the third day.
• Possibly the first thing I would do if I could Al-style-Time-Travel would be to see The Beatles live in a bar in Hamburg during one of their residencies. I’d probably catch a few shows in Germany and a few shows at The Cavern Club in Liverpool. All of them would be pre-Beatlemania. Once things went crazy you couldn’t hear them at any of their shows over all of the screaming. I would want to be able to hear every glorious note.
• The signing of the Declaration of Independence
• Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox
• Lincoln’s inauguration addresses, the Gettysburg address, and his assassination. Also, pretty much anything Lincoln ever did in public.
• Every single Rush concert starting at the Coff-In and ending in Los Angeles. All of them. Literally.
• Countless concerts and sporting events.

Unfortunately I need to start my morning routine now so I will cut this post off here. I might add an addendum later as more things come to me, or maybe I’ll just add a second post. This will do for now though.

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*Did I use effect and affect correctly? I would look it up to make sure, but I am way too lazy right now. Let’s just assume I got it right.

What’s something you believe everyone should know.

Daily writing prompt

Anyone else catch the grammar error in the daily prompt today? Has there been an error like this in every question?

Here are a few things that everyone should know:

• Everything is true.
• God’s an Astronaut.
• Oz is Over the Rainbow,
• and Midian is where the monsters live…

Wait… that isn’t it… that’s a line from the Clive Barker movie Nightbreed.

So what was I going to write about?

Oh yeah, now I remember.

Here is a definitive truth that everyone should know…

Fascism is bad. Like… not a little bad, or sort of bad, but absolutely evil and very, very bad. Dig? Nazis are bad. Fascists are bad. Fascist collaborators are bad. Fascist sympathizers are bad. The entire free world once banded together to remove fascism from civilization. That was good. Destroying fascist states and fascist people is good.

It is really very simple. You can all understand it, right? If you start thinking that maybe that hitler guy had some good ideas, then you need to understand that those ideas were not good, they were bad. Also, it probably means that on a core level you are bad as well.

Stop being fascists.

Okay, here is a bonus based on a few responses to this question that I have read this morning.

Twelve people have walked on The Moon. They were all Americans.

• Apollo 11 Mission
  • Neil Armstrong
  • Buzz Aldrin
• Apollo 12 Mission
  • Pete Conrad
  • Alan Bean
• Apollo 14 Mission
  • Alan Shepard
  • Edgar Mitchell
• Apollo 15 Mission
  • David Scott
  • James Irwin
• Apollo 16 Mission
  • John Young
  • Charles Duke
• Apollo 17
  • Gene Cernan
  • Harrison Schmitt

If you have decided that these 12 people did not walk on The Moon then I suggest you get your head out of your ass and grow the fuck up.

Thank you, good night.