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Offline Max Caliber

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Holy Howitzers
« on: October 29, 2008, 02:37:44 AM »
I ran across this picture while looking for others. This is inside the chapel at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. There are six original mountain howitzers barrels set into the walls, three on each side.

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Re: Holy Howitzers
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2008, 04:15:34 AM »
Someone please tell them that polishing those fine original pieces is sacreligious.
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Re: Holy Howitzers
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2008, 04:25:15 AM »
Reminds me of Hotel San Fantin in Venice where there is a monument to the 1848 revolution, with gunnades and shot built into it. You can see some of them here:

http://www.hotelsanfantin.com/index.html

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Re: Holy Howitzers
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2008, 04:57:05 AM »
Tx for posting pix of the hotel.  It looks like they set those gunades into the wall with the bottom side out.

http://www.hotelsanfantin.com/immagini%20nuove/Mvc-003f_opt.JPG
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Re: Holy Howitzers
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2008, 05:11:01 AM »
HOLY SMOKE! Cannons in church.
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Re: Holy Howitzers
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2008, 06:41:48 AM »
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HOLY SMOKE! Cannons in church.

They preach fire and brimstone in that church, so the howitzers fit right in.
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Re: Holy Howitzers
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2008, 06:51:54 AM »
Quote from: thelionspaw on October 29, 2008, 05:11:01 AM
HOLY SMOKE! Cannons in church.


What? you never head of the Church Cannons?  ::)




Yeah I know a different spelling..........
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Re: Holy Howitzers
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2008, 07:04:56 AM »
Gahd zooks! You two are worserer than I am. (no correction needed)
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Re: Holy Howitzers
« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2008, 09:19:44 AM »
I'll come in and offer to saw three in half and re-install them, in exchange for the other three. Good idea? MIKE :)
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Re: Holy Howitzers
« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2008, 10:04:54 AM »
Quote from: Max Caliber on October 29, 2008, 02:37:44 AM
I ran across this picture while looking for others. This is inside the chapel at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. There are six original mountain howitzers barrels set into the walls, three on each side.





Max,

 That's a great photo; to quote the late Johnny Carson, "I did not know that". I've never seen or heard of the chapel nor its unique wall decorations before. I wonder if these six shiny pieces have been recorded in the National Register of Surviving Civil War Artillery?
I've now got the notion to recommend this to our Parish authorities, I haven't had a priest close to cursing me out since I was a youth. Though instead of the wall mountings I think they'd make excellent holy water fonts, I'll suggest two standing on bases beside the main doors with specially made bowls that fit in the muzzles.   
 
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Re: Holy Howitzers
« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2008, 10:37:19 AM »
What kind of sacrilage is this (sacrilage to good cannons) - Here's another example - some big cannon set into the ground as pivots for a coastal battery, not far from where I live.
Where can I get a big crane ?
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Re: Holy Howitzers
« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2008, 11:14:31 AM »
Boom J, They are listed on the National Register. Note that they are mounted muzzle up. Must be a passage that says "lift thy muzzles to the heavens".   :)


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« Reply #12 on: October 29, 2008, 12:07:26 PM »
I will help you mike , we will have one and a half each   ;D
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Re: Holy Howitzers
« Reply #13 on: October 29, 2008, 01:32:05 PM »
Quote from: Max Caliber on October 29, 2008, 11:14:31 AM
Must be a passage that says "lift thy muzzles to the heavens"

I think it's "make a joyful noise!"
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Re: Holy Howitzers
« Reply #14 on: October 29, 2008, 01:46:59 PM »
 Hey.... That has me thinking....  Maybe, as a "Tax Shelter" church??? Everyone sends me money. I buy cannons and people worship me and my cannons.  ;D  ;D  ;D This sounds like a "Win-Win" to me....  :D

 I know I'm "intoodeep"  ;)
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Re: Holy Howitzers
« Reply #15 on: October 29, 2008, 06:05:22 PM »
Quote from: accuratemike on October 29, 2008, 09:19:44 AM
I'll come in and offer to saw three in half and re-install them, in exchange for the other three. Good idea? MIKE :)

Better yet rather than destroy 3 have 6 new ones cast as replacements and all six are saved.


You know most sinners go to churched to be saved....... I never thought I'd be wanting to get something away
from a church to be saved.......  ::)
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Mr president I do not cling to either my gun or my Bible.... my gun is holstered on my side so I may carry my Bible and quote from it!

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