August 2009 - Argghhh!

The Medal opens the day in 1862, at the battle of Bristol Station.HAIGHT, JOHN H. Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company G, 72d New York Infantry. Place and date: At Williamsburg, Va., 5 May 1862. At Bristol Station, Va., 27 August 1862. At Manassas, Va., 29-30 August 1862. Entered service at: Westfield, N.Y. Born: 1 July 1841, Westfield, N.Y. Date of issue: 8 June 1888. Citation: At Williamsburg, Va., voluntarily carried a severely wounded comrade off the field in the face of a large force of...

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...who wishes to remain anonymous, which I support, as I understand why. They occupy a position of prominence in a *very* PC workplace. They have adopted the pseudonym of Liberator.The sensationalism has to stop-and with the release of CIA’s IG report, “Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities September 2001-October 2003,” it might. Maybe. Hopefully. But with lurid horror-show allusions to the use of a power drill in an interrogation (it was revved up but never applied...

Senator Ted Kennedy has succumbed to his illness. We wish the family the best of it in what is always a trying time, even when you knew it was coming.As my opinion of Senator Kennedy's politics is well known, I'll focus on his military service, as laid out in Wikipedia.Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army in June 1951. Following basic training at Fort Dix, he requested assignment to Fort Holabird for Army Intelligence training, but was dropped after a few weeks without explanation....

Not all Canadian Soldiers fight in Canada's Army.During my war, the news was always about the flight of US cowards to the North. Never a word was said about the arrival of Canadian heroes who came Due South.There were three Canadians in my flight platoon in Vietnam. They weren't Canadian pilots flying with us, they were Canadians who had joined the US Army and gone through flight school *in order* to fly with us.There are still Canadian heroes in the US Army -- and sometimes, they, too, take...

Today opens with a bridge-burning under fire at Waterloo Bridge, Va, in 1862, followed up by artilleryman, infantryman and cavalryman who earned their pay at Reams Station, Virginia in 1864.TRIBE, JOHN Rank and organization: Private, Company G, 5th New York Cavalry. Place and date: At Waterloo Bridge, Va., 25 August 1862. Entered service at: Oswego, N.Y. Birth: Tioga County, N.Y. Date of issue: 11 June 1895. Citation: Voluntarily assisted in the burning and destruction of the bridge under heavy fire...

Remind us, Eld One, how many bullet holes are in Hubert in this picture?In the 1930's, when Indiana Jones was out searching for the Ark of the Covenant, he came across a small cave in the Horeb, whereupon he found a piece of scroll, the torn edges of which happen to match a Dead Sea Scroll upon which was found an early version of the Book of Exodus.Exodus 17. Water From The Rock.1. And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according...