Or maybe...

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Socrates II — 8/10/2009 2:31:03 AM (archived)

It was the really primitive medical care and lack of decent sanitation that did SJ in,
as it did so many soldiers during that war and most other ones before the 20th Century.

Read the scary details here and be glad we live in 2009:

http://www.civilwarhome.com/civilwarmedicine.htm

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Article on Judas Iscariot in The New Yorker online - Socrates II - 8/7/2009 8:04:20 PM
- I do not believe anything I read about Jesus...or his disciples - Jody - 8/8/2009 4:00:18 AM
  - I wasn't there. - ER - 8/8/2009 12:04:11 PM
    - Neither was I - mip - 8/8/2009 7:57:35 PM
      - There are other alternatives. - Eri - 8/9/2009 2:29:48 AM
        
        How tough would it have been for someone just a little more advanced... - Socrates II - 8/10/2009 2:57:59 AM
      - Chapter and verse - ER - 8/8/2009 9:21:27 PM
        
        Amen to all that. (n/t) - Eri - 8/9/2009 2:32:10 AM
- A lot of speculation based on very little fact. - ER - 8/8/2009 1:12:39 AM
  - James Madison. - Eri - 8/8/2009 4:34:00 AM
    - Stonewall Jackson. - ER - 8/8/2009 11:44:01 AM
      - Friendly Fire - Eri - 8/8/2009 5:37:06 PM
        
        re: Friendly Fire - ER - 8/8/2009 9:33:13 PM
        
        Or just wanted to make sure he was dead. - Eri - 8/9/2009 2:33:57 AM
        
        Or maybe... - Socrates II - 8/10/2009 2:31:03 AM
        
        Yeah, germ theory was still a few decades away. - Lee - 8/10/2009 3:45:15 AM

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