If you liked John Adams, might I also suggest reading "1776."  Excellent read, also by McCulloch about the early part of the war and the struggles of the American army.

Rob, I'm not even sure which ones that I'm looking for.  I want to dig through that site and see what I come up with and go from there.  It'll be a few weeks though as Sunday I'm headed to New Orleans for another week of relief work.  When I dig up what I'm looking for, I'll hit you up.

Hey does anyone know of a good roughly 80's lego site?  I'm considering picking up a few of the space sets that I had as a kid and want to do a little research before diving in.

That looks fantastic.  Excellent work on your deck.

Wow, super old thread!!

My avatar is a tribute to my time in the military.  I've got another avatar on another board I'd rather use, but it's too big to use here.  That one has two crossed M4's behind the skull with the beret.  So this one is just a variation of that.

I don't have the pic yet, but I picked up an unpainted micro Hoth Han.  I now just need an unpainted Han in shackles and unpainted Han on tauntaun to have a run off all the Han production micros, both painted and unpainted.  I've got a deal working to get the shackles figure, but I'm waiting for the seller to callme back.

That AT-AT looks fantastic.  Very, very nice pick up.

I finished "Lone Survivor" the othe night..wow is all I can say, just wow.

Right now, new book is "Lone Star Rising."  It's pretty much all about the colonization of Texas by the Americans from the filibusters before the Mexican Revolution and goes through the end of the Texas Revolution and the creation of the Republic of Texas.