MHB, you certainly know your history well. I'm very impressed!Mary Hatch Bailey wrote:I would have dinner with Benjamin Franklin.
I would make sure Hitler's father was rendered impotent in a bicycling accident as a youth.
I would advise them not to burn the uniforms of the dying soldiers at Fort Dix and save 20 -40 million lives lost in the influenza epidemic of 1918.
I would be on the grassy knoll and tackle the gunman that was about to shoot JFK.
I would advise the guy that invented CFCs in the 20s that it wasn't such a good idea.
I'd be in the Situation Room when Johnson decided to increase our presence in Viet Nam, and then kick the chair out from under him and hope non of the cabinent memeber remembered what he said in all the commotion.
Oh to be in St. Petersburg in 1916 to see what really happened to Rasputin, and for that matter to urge Csar Nicholas to form the Duma sooner.
I would insist JFK Jr. drive to Martha's Vineyard to attend his cousin's wedding, not fly.
I would have taken Lake Road on December 22nd, 2004 -- not Greenbush.
I would put Elvis in a 12 step program and Overeaters Anonymous.
I would witness Neanderthals making their first tools.
I would be at Cape Canavaral, May 5th, 1961 to watch Alan Shepard.
Mohammed Atta would not have been in Boston in September of 2001 if I had a time machine.
I think I would have liked to have met E.M. Forester and Jane Austen and Clark Gable, Laura Ingalls Wilder.
If I could, I would have influenced the US's policies towards Native Americans in the early 19th century.
I would definitely advise Howard Dean not to scream into the microphone in Iowa.
You're just being modest. Anyway, most of us would just go back a few weeks and purchase the winning tickets for the lottery which would make us mighty rich (no no, I'm not taking a low blow on Vaucluse!).Mary Hatch Bailey wrote:No, No. Just that I have given this question lots of thought.fredchong wrote:MHB, you certainly know your history well. I'm very impressed!
Fred
I'd probably try to reverse the nonsense that I did so that my wife would never have to feel the pain I caused her. Ah well, that's another story altogether.
sapphire wrote:So, wanting to go back in time to marry Jim Morrison isn't considered a noble sentiment? WTF! I would've probably stopped a damn good artist dying a premature death! You people just don't understand the profound aspect to my time travel!
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