General Discussion, Thursday, April 9, 2026

Posted on April 9, 2026 by Stella

Day FOUR HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE of Presidential recovery.

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37 Responses to General Discussion, Thursday, April 9, 2026

  1. Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
    April 9, 2026 at 6:24 am

    Good morning ‘lil piggies! Happy Thursday.

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  2. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    April 9, 2026 at 6:33 am

    Good mornin’, and happy Thursday! This machine has everything except Google Translate! Keep your head on a swivel and carpe’ your coffee!

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  3. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    April 9, 2026 at 7:33 am

    Laws, I’d watch every day! 😀 Mornin’ kids!

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  4. czarina33's avatar czarina33 says:
    April 9, 2026 at 9:30 am

    National Cherish an Antique Day

    National Almond Cookie Day

    National Winston Churchill Day

    National Name Yourself Day – If you have ever wondered what it would be like to have a different name, this would be the day to find out. Whether you like your name or not, this day is about having fun with a different name. Actors get to try on new names all the time. While they’re at it, they also pretend to be another personality altogether. 

    National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day

    National Alcohol Screening Day

    National Chicken Little Awareness Day

    National Unicorn Day

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  5. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    April 9, 2026 at 11:18 am

    Well, my first comment disappeared. I’ll try again.

    I love antiques. My home is furnished with old junk that I call antiques.

    I definitely support Former Prisoner of War Day.

    I think there are a lot of Chicken Littles and they are mostly Demoncraps.

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    • Stella's avatar Stella says:
      April 9, 2026 at 11:40 am

      The spam goblin got you this morning!

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    • Reflection's avatar Reflection says:
      April 9, 2026 at 12:02 pm

      Good morning, Aus,

      Antique just signifies age, not condition!

      Oftentimes, this is the scenario.

      When an antique buyer purchases it, he’ll call it “junk”. And pays the lowest price.

      When he makes minor repairs (that don’t affect the value), polishes and sells the item, it becomes an expensive “antique”.

      Enjoy your antiques!

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  6. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    April 9, 2026 at 11:27 am

    Mornin’ All. It is 35*, a little breezy, and very sunny and bright outside. Looks to be a beautiful day. Hope yours is the same.

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  7. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
    April 9, 2026 at 11:30 am

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  8. Stella's avatar Stella says:
    April 9, 2026 at 12:47 pm

    ZitoSalena
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    APPOMATTOX, VA. — On April 9, 1865, Gen. Robert E. Lee strode onto the porch of a two-story brick home and stared out at a lawn filled with Union soldiers, his Confederate staff of two, and his horse Traveler.
    Still wearing full military dress, Lee raised his gloved hands and punched his left fist into his right palm. The sound of leather meeting leather echoed in the unsteady silence.
    Then, as Lee mounted Traveler, Major Gen. Ulysses S. Grant emerged from the house onto the porch.
    Now facing each other, Grant raised his hat, as did Lee. It wasn’t a salute, but clearly an acknowledgment of the moment.
    As Lee turned towards the dirt road and headed east towards his troops, the 198th Pennsylvania Infantry played “Auld Lang Syne.”
    The Civil War was over.
    “As the sun rose that morning neither man would know by mid-afternoon the war, for all intents and purposes, would end that day,” explained Ernie Price, a park ranger and director of education at Appomattox National Park.
    But by mid-morning, Lee knew the Confederate cause was finished. He sent a message to Grant to meet for the purpose of surrender, and the Appomattox home of grocer Wilmer McLean was chosen for the moment.
    When they met, Grant was poorly dressed, his uniform rumpled and covered in mud from the ride the night before. Years later in his memoirs, he admitted that he had no idea what he was going to ask from Lee in the surrender.
    Yet, once he sat down at a small spindle desk in McLean’s front parlor, words of reconciliation poured out.
    “Grant knew that the Confederate soldiers from that moment on were going to be US citizens again,” said Price. “Instead of placing them in prisons in the North he sends them home. His reasoning is: The sooner the South’s economy rebounds, the sooner the country can reconcile, so he paroles them.”
    Grant also allowed Lee’s men to keep their personal sidearms and animals, knowing they would desperately need rations to survive.
    Today marks the 161st anniversary of Appomattox, and tourists from around the world still come to the McLean home to remember this singular moment, which kept our nation whole after a bloody, brutal war. When I visited last month, parents, students and children listened to different park rangers tell the story of the two generals, and were surprised by the emotion they felt.
    The best and the worst of our country’s past sometimes happens side by side. The journey to understand who we once were isn’t always a road to perdition. Sometimes it’s a path toward inspiration.
    Between the first shots fired at Fort Sumter in April 1861 and Lee’s surrender here, more than 800,000 soldiers died from fighting, starvation and disease. Five days after the war’s end, President Abraham Lincoln was dead, having paid the ultimate sacrifice for his steadfastness to preserve the union.
    Afterwards the country was thrown into both mourning and uncertainty about its future as it faced reconstruction.
    All of which should prove to folks who often moan that we live in the worst time possible for this country that, indeed, we do not.
    As the two generals waited for their treaty to be prepared in McLean’s parlor, Grant introduced Lee to his staff, including Lt. Col. Ely Parker, a Seneca Indian, who later recalled their exchange.
    “It’s good to see one real American here today,” Lee told him.
    “General, we are all Americans today,” Parker replied.
    Grant and Lee understood that a divided nation is a toxic nation — and that moment 161 years ago should serve as a reminder for all of us, to not just look to the bad and condemn, but to look to the good and apply it to our lives today.

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  9. Stella's avatar Stella says:
    April 9, 2026 at 1:04 pm

    Good question.

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