USMC 2571
09-17-14, 07:38 AM
Its anniversary is today.
Was it Iwo? Saipan? Anything to do with WW I or II?
Korean War? Vietnam?
No. The Civil War---Battle of Antietam (Maryland)--Known to the South as Sharpsburg, for the nearest town.
September 17th, 1862
A place called The Cornfield changed hands several times that day, and the fully grown corn stalks looked afterwards like they had been cut to ground level by hand.
Was it Iwo? Saipan? Anything to do with WW I or II?
Korean War? Vietnam?
No. The Civil War---Battle of Antietam (Maryland)--Known to the South as Sharpsburg, for the nearest town.
September 17th, 1862
A place called The Cornfield changed hands several times that day, and the fully grown corn stalks looked afterwards like they had been cut to ground level by hand.