The battle of Athens Tennessee

[Barnacle Bill]

How many of you know about this? It sure makes you think. Battle-of-Athens

[Phantom309]

Seen that awhile back = interesting .......

[raporter]

VEry interesting. Never heard about it before.

[Spawn]

Very cool i would say

[bfish]

Here is a more accurate account of part of what happen, rather than a fictionalized made for tv movie:
The Battle Of Athens | American Heritage Magazine

The GI campaign manager was my great uncle (known as Big Jim). Mom grew up 2 blocks from the old jail.

[Barnacle Bill]

Interesting reading bfish. I take everything I read and see on the net with a grain of salt since I wasn't there. I think this is an important part of our history and can't help but wonder how much more things of this type has happened.

[roybuoy]

That happened about 69 miles north of me

[fishingpox]

this needs to happen in washington...amazing how power corrupts

[tenncrappie]

I live in Etowah, 9 miles from AthensTn. I've heard stories of this all my 59 years. Yes! this needs to happen in Washington. The same things going on then are going on nation wide on a bigger scale. The little guy is being pushed aside.

[bfish]

Lots of bloggers are using the Battle to push their agenda. Most of which have nothing to do with the reasons for the actual battle.