![]() He freed a slave, and that’s all that matters. He freed a slave that he somehow owned (I don’t want to be naive to think it he was purely out of sympathy / empathy as it could have been, but who really knows.He made mistakes (especially during the war and presidency) yet wasn’t too proud nor too stubborn to learn from them and try his best to fix them.While watching the series I couldn’t help myself but to feel an overall sense of camaraderie or affinity with Grant as a person for various reasons: Event though they still produce a lot of dramatized, reality TV crap and are no longer purely history like they once were, I must congratulate them on this. I have to give kudos to the History Channel. So much so that after the series was over I was pouring over Grant’s wikipedia entry and even looking for books about him. And for the first time in my life I had an actual interest in both Ulysses S. So we watched the Grant mini series and it was spectacular! Very well produced and acted, sucked me in, and most importantly it had lots of tasty non-biased history morsels about Grant and the Civil War. Or is it synchronicity? It was as if the universe was telling me that I needed to watch the series before I could make my video on it (which even more coincidentally wasn’t ready to be filmed until after the series). My wife and I couldn’t help but chuckle at the coincidence: here I am preparing to do a video based on the Civil War, and the History channel is releasing a documentary about it. So I did some research, purchased a variety of props (including civil war reproduction uniform and tent), and made the video.īut about a month prior to making the video, and the whole point of this piece of writing, is that sometime in April, the History Channel previewed a trailer for an upcoming mini-series about the civil war called “Grant”. I would continue to think about the Civil War idea off an on over the next few years until March of this year (2020) when all of a sudden my brain decided it was the right time to do the video (who am I to question my brain? It commands, I obey). For whatever reason, some ideas just take time to develop and it has nothing to do with needing to be elaborate, well thought out, or spending money on a ton of props. I thought that was a good idea, but at that time I wasn’t sure how to go about it, as is the case with most suggestions or even my own ideas. etc.Ī few years ago someone commented on my YouTube channel that I should do a Civil War ASMR role-play. I could really care less as to who was president, why the roman aqueducts were built, what the state capitals are, who invented whatever, etc. I do like certain aspects of history such as things revolving around aboriginal tribes, nature, and war. I like being a simple bipedal hominid: I like family, food, art, nature, games, tech and science (to a degree… i love/hate tech, and dislike almost everything about space exploration for certain reasons, but that’s another article). Social Studies…įast forward to the date of this writing, and for the most part I still have zero interest in history. Of course, that’s not how I thought of it back then when I was a kid, but today that pretty much sums up my lack of interest in history and social studies. When it came to history though, I could have cared less about anything that was not relevant or important to my survival and growing up. First off, I went to Roman Catholic school, so there was that. When I was a kid, I hated school for the most part. But this isn’t really so much about the video and how & why it came to be, than it is about how I came to have a newfound interest in the topic of the video at hand: the American Civil War, more specifically Ulysses S. That is not the case for the video called “ Relax with a Union Soldier | ASMR” for which this piece of writing is about. Most of the videos I make for my YouTube channel don’t often have any kind of interesting story behind the reason that they were made.
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