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that big. i m going to negotiate a very dangerous set of rapids this morning. the professor at georgia southwestern state university who is married u in fact torks one of my employees, dr. glen robins, he says and i agree completely, generally, you can either talk about andersonville or the other military prisons of war. it becomes emotionally difficult to try to do both. i hesitate to use the acronym p.o.w. in a civil war context. it s a 20th century term. and i wliek to talk about. so it tends to slow me down a lot. fall outside of the traditional heroic narrative of the war. and, again, you lose objectivity very quickly the longer you stay down in the wreckage of the war. andersonville is the most famous of the military prisons. it s a long way from the rest of the civil war world, both literally and figuratively, the prison site was chosen on purpose 150 years ago to be as remote and as insulated a place in the confederacy far from perceived locations battle. and 50 ....
, who is married, in fact, to one of my employees, dr. glen robins, he says and i agree completely, generally, you can either talk about andersonville or the other military prisons of war. it becomes emotionally difficult to try to do both. and i will explore that. and i am going to weave in between the two a little bit. a note on semantics before i start any further. i hesitate to use the acronym p.o.w. in a civil war context. because it s a 20th century term. like to talk a lot. prisoner of war slows me down a little bit. civil war prisons and prisoners of war fall outside of the traditional heroic narrative of the war. and looking into this story, in a sense, that requires one to dive deeply into the wreckage of the war, the consequences of the war. and, again, you lose objectivity very quickly the longer you stay down in the wreckage of the war. andersonville is the most famous of the military prisons. it s a long way from the rest of the civil war world, both liter ....
and i like to talk a lot. prisoner of war slows me down a little bit. civil war prisons and prisoners of war fall outside of the traditional heroic narrative of the war. and looking into this story, in a sense, that requires one to dive deeply into the wreckage of the war, the consequences of the war. and, again, you lose objectivity very quickly the longer you stay down in the wreckage of the war. andersonville is the most famous of the military prisons. it s a long way from the rest of the civil war world, both literally and figuratively. the prison site was chosen on purpose 150 years ago to be as remote and as insulated a place in the confederacy, far from perceived locations of battle. and 150 years later, this prisoner of war story remains distant from the rest of the narrative. we have the tendency to talk about prisoner of war camps, and andersonville, off to the side of the main narrative of the war. it s, you know, as we talk about battles and campaigns, oh, b ....
accounts of the horrors within the prison. this is part of the gettysburg institute annual summer conference. it is about an hour. [applause] the conference last year, you know, i circumstances conspired so that i was a fleeting head on the screen and i m very pleased this morning to actually be present and projecting images of prisoner of war camps and military prisons on the screen instead of me. i don t think i represent well that big. i m going to negotiate a very, very dangerous set of rapids this morning. the professor at georgia southwestern state university, who is married, in fact, to one of my employees, dr. glen robins, he says and i agree completely, generally, you can either talk about andersonville or the other military prisons of war. it becomes emotionally difficult to try to do both. and i will explore that. and i am going to weave in between the two a little bit. a note on semantics before i start any further. i hesitate to use the acronym p.o.w. i ....
unmet needs or changing courses during changing times. yet, it s a terrific part of this amazing long-term rally, including today, where the dow climbed 39 points, s&p advanced 1.2% and the nasdaq gained 0.23%. i know this factor is underestimated because i see it every day. this morning we got a textbook example. right now there s a widespread perception that stocks are expensive. you hear it all the time, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble. if you did read this morning s wall street journal, you might have see a story entitled frost-bitten costco is on thin ice. in this ahead of the tape al article, we see the kind of negative bias that s become so characteristic of this moment. this story says and i quote, thursday s results of course meaning this morning had the potential to disappoint, given that the stock is more richly valued than oush usual. what s the worry here? another month of zero same-store sales numbers growth or worse may make investors see the ....