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day 23 - 11/19/08
Surrender don't come natural to me
I'd rather fight you for something I don't really want
than take what you give that I need
and I've beat my head against so many walls
now I'm falling down, falling on my knees
--Hold Me Jesus (Rich Mullins)
Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London.
Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military war effort and sacrifice of Britain and its Empire during the First World War.
The museum's remit has since expanded to include all conflicts in which British or Commonwealth forces have been involved since 1914. As of 2012, the museum aims 'to provide for, and to encourage, the study and understanding of the history of modern war and "wartime experience"'.
Originally housed in the Crystal Palace at Sydenham Hill, the museum opened to the public in 1920.
In 1924 the museum moved to space in the Imperial Institute in South Kensington, and finally in 1936 the museum acquired a permanent home which was previously the Bethlem Royal Hospital in Southwark.
The outbreak of the Second World War saw the museum expand both its collections and its terms of reference, but in the post-war period the museum entered a period of decline.
The 1960s saw the museum redevelop its Southwark building, now referred to as Imperial War Museum London, which serves as the organisation's corporate headquarters.
During the 1970s the museum began to expand onto other sites. The first, in 1976, was a historic airfield in Cambridgeshire now referred to as IWM Duxford.
In 1978 the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Belfast became a branch of the museum, having previously been preserved for the nation by a private trust.
In 1984 the Cabinet War Rooms, an underground wartime command centre, was opened to the public.
From the 1980s onwards the museum's Bethlem building underwent a series of multimillion-pound redevelopments, completed in 2000.
Finally, 2002 saw the opening of IWM North in Trafford, Greater Manchester, the fifth branch of the museum and the first in the north of England.
In 2011 the museum rebranded itself as IWM, standing for 'Imperial War Museums'.
Andy at the launch of The International Fund for Animal Welfare's Ivory Surrender Campaign, which raises awareness about the illegal ivory trade.
This is one of my favorite shots from my last shoot, it almost looks like the water is stabbing her and going inside her chest.
Its crazy the way a camera can capture water, i love itt.
Construction of Fort Sumter began after the war of 1812 in 1829 and was named after Revolutionary War hero General Thomas Sumter. 70,000 tons of granite were imported from New England to build up a sandbar at the entrance to Charleston's harbor. However by 1861 it still was not completed.
It was designed to be a pentagon (5-sided) structure, each wall being 170-190 feet in length. The walls would rise 50 feet above the low-tide mark and be 5 feet thick. 135 cannons would be arranged in 3 tiers of gun emplacements, although the fort never was filled to near that capacity.
On December 26, 1860, US Army Major Robert Anderson abandoned Fort Moultrie and secretly relocated two companies of troops to Fort Sumter. The fort was not yet complete and was greatly underarmed for what it's current capacity should have been. Anderson felt that a stronger presence would delay any attack by the South Carolina militia.
After President Buchanan refused South Carolina's Governor's demand to surrender Fort Sumter, repeated calls by the SC government to evacuate the fort were ignored by the occupying Union army. On January 9, 1861, Union attempts to resupply and reinforce the garrison were repulsed when the first shots of the war were fired from a battery on Morris Island by cadets from The Citadel. Upon realizing that Anderson's troops would run out of food by April 15th, now President Lincoln ordered a fleet of ships to enter Charleston harbor and attempt to resupply the fort.
On April 11, 1861, Confederate Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard sent three aides to the Fort to demand Anderson's surrender. The aides delivered the news to Beauregard who then consulted with the Confederate Secretary of War, Leroy Walker. The aides were sent back to the fort for one more appeal. Anderson played for time and eventually delivered his conditions in the early hours of the morning. The aides conferred, and decided it was "manifestly futile and not within the scope of the instructions verbally given to us." They proceeded to the nearby Fort Johnson and ordered them to open fire on Fort Sumter.
At 4:30 AM on April 12, 1861 Fort Johnson began a 34-hour bombardment of Fort Sumter. Fort Sumter eventually returned fire after two hours, but had no fuses for their explosive shells and did not have the ammunition for the task. On April 13, 1861, Fort Sumter surrendered and was evacuated.
On April 7, 1863, a squadron of Union ships attempted to retake the harbor once again. The attack was exceedingly unsuccessful. The squadron's most powerful ship was never able to engage and the ironclad frigates only managed to get off 154 rounds compared to the Confederate defenders 2,209. One of the Union ships sunk, the Keokuk, sank 1,400 yards off the tip of Morris Island. Working under the cover of night, confederates managed to salvage two of Keokuk's 11-inch Dahlgren guns and one was promptly placed inside Fort Sumter.
In early September 1863, a third attempt to take the fort took place. A series of bad decisions and poor planning led to another dismal failure. Disputes between Union Army and Navy officers led to the fleet being split and one of them was temporarily beached due to low tide and could not participate in the assault. A few quicker landing ships did manage to break through and offload soldiers onto the banks of Fort Sumter, but poor reconnaissance led them to an impenetrable side of the fort that they could not scale. Some of the Union soldiers were picked off by small arms fire from atop the fort and other by hand grenades or simply loose bricks that were thrown at them. Fort Johnson and the Confederate warship CSS Chicora opened fire on the ships and landing party. The ships that could withdraw did, the rest of the Union soldiers surrendered. The Union lost 8 men, 19 wounded, and 105 were taken prisoner. There were no Confederate casualties.
The bombardment of the fort continued with increasing intensity until the end of the war. The last Confederate commander, Major Thomas A. Huguenin, never surrendered the fort, but William Tecumseh Sherman's advance through South Carolina forced the Confederates to evacuate Charleston and abandon Fort Sumter. The Federal Government formally took control of Fort Sumter on February 22, 1865. On April 14th, 1865, a mere hours before Lincoln's assassination, now Major General Anderson returned to Fort Sumter with the flag he'd lowered 4 years and 1 day earlier and raised it in triumph once again.
After the war, the fort was in ruins. The US Army leveled the damaged walls to a lower height and the third tier of gun emplacements were removed. Until 1897, the Fort was relegated to nothing more than lighthouse duties. The Spanish-American War prompted renewed interest and a revitalization project began. A massive concrete installation was built inside the existing walls and was armed with two 12-inch guns. They were never fired.
A celebration of the War of 1812 Bicentennial, featuring the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps. Waterfront Park, 1 Prince St, Alexandria, VA.
At midday on April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee rode into this yard, dismounted and disappeared into the McLean house. Grant surrounded by Generals and staff officers, soon followed. Dozens of officers, horses and onlookers waited outside. After 90 minutes Lee and Grant emerged. To the silent salutes of Union officers Lee rode back through the village - to his defeated Army. The home that hosted the surrender meeting was was one of the best in Appomattox. Built in 1848, it had since 1862 been owned by businessman Wilmer McLean. The house became a sensation after the surrender, Union officers took some mementoes: and in 1893 it was dismantled for display in Washington, D. C. The display never happened and the National Park Service reconstructed the building on it's original site in the 1940's.
From the book HeartSong's Revolution by Kathryn Knoll, SNJM that accompanies the Hearthstones she makes...
SURRENDER
"When you choose the Hearthstone surrender, you are invited to let go of your fear. This is the only thing really keeping you from your greatness. You struggle to hold on to something that has never been real. It is only an illusionary creation your mind has conjured to distract you from seeing your magnificence. Surrender. Pull out your white heart cloth and lay it down, now. The only real control you have is to choose to let go of the illusion. You cannot put off the inevitable truth: the shining light of your holy being is becoming obvious to those around you. Embrace the awesome being you are that everybody wants to love."
Photo inspired by the inspirational amma_maw.
By Bruce Springsteen
We busted out of class
Had to get away from those fools
We learned more from a three minute record
Than we ever learned in school
Tonight I hear the neighborhood drummer sound
I can feel my heart begin to pound
You say you're tired,
And you just want to close your eyes
And follow your dreams down
We made a promise,
We swore we'd always remember
No retreat, no surrender
Like soldiers in the winter's night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, no surrender
Now young faces grow sad, and old
And hearts of fire grow cold
We swore blood brothers, against the wind
I'm ready to grow young again
And hear your sister's voice, calling us home
Across the open yards
Well maybe we could cut someplace of our own
With these drums, and these guitars
Blood brothers in the stormy night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, no surrender
Now on the street tonight, the lights grow dim
The walls of my room are closing in
There's a war outside still raging
You say it ain't ours anymore to win
I want to sleep beneath peaceful skies, in my lover's bed
With a wide open country in my eyes
And these romantic dreams, in my head
Só porque não me canso dos beijos quentes desses dois!
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Just because I can't get enough of their hot kisses!
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A Faith LO to remind myself to be thankful for everything I have, which is plenty, even when I'm broke, or sick, or sad.
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