September 2009 - Argghhh!

The Auld Soldier, along with his bride of 56 years Ann, and the ashes of their dog, Meggy, will be laid to rest together in Leavenworth National Cemetery at 12:30PM, Tuesday, 15 September. If you are in the area and wish to help us this task, please feel free to come. All are welcome to send the hero home. For those who may be in and around Columbia, Missouri, the funeral is at 2:30PM at Calvary Episcopal Church in on 9th street....

***I'm not sure what the current situation is vis-a-vis posting. So I just pulled up the Armorer's 9/11 post from 2008. After all, it doesn't change, does it? Just a little edit from "seven years ago" to "eight years ago".....Maggie*** ...seven years ago? I was making my 10 minute commute when I turned the radio on in the car and there was excited jabbering about how an airplane had flown into the World Trade Center. I figured they meant a small airplane or perhaps...

The Auld Soldier, Colonel Timothy Donovan, FA, Silver Star, DFC, Purple Heart w/6OLC, Combat Infantry Badge, veteran of two wars, one hell of a Rotarian and my father, signaled End of Mission, Close Station, March Order, and struck his colors at 1215 this afternoon. Memorial service is Monday at 2:30 PM in Columbia, interment will be at Leavenworth National Cemetery at a date to be determined. We'll dance later. I'm not in the mood.

Rummaging through the backroads of this information superhighway, I stumbled upon this picture of an Italian 2LT. The caption for this Bersagliero reads: NATO led peacekeepers in Kosovo (KFOR) attend a KFOR change of command ceremony in Pristina on September 8 , 2009. The KFOR command was handed over today at NATO forces from the outgoing Italy Commander Guisepe Emilio Gay to the German commander Markus Bentler. NATO has deployed its peacekeepers in Kosovo after its 1999 air campaign that ousted...

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The first Medal awarded for actions today comes during the "Indian Wars" period, and involves a form of flag capture... HILL, FRANK E.Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company E, 5th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Date Creek, Ariz., 8 September 1872. Entered service at: ------. Birth: Mayfield, Wis. Date of issue: 12 August 1875. Citation: Secured the person of a hostile Apache Chief, although while holding the chief he was severely wounded in the back by another Indian . While yesterday...

McVicker's had the right of it, in that he scored the whole deal. I figured that many of you would figure out "spike bayonet for the No. 4 rifle." That's pretty hard to do a whatzis with that isn't essentially impossible to figure out, by only showing 1mm square black... hmmmm.... [shakes head] Anyway - it is indeed a bayonet for an Enfield No. 4 stuck on the postwar entrenching tool, intended to give your average Brit grunt something to poke the ground with to find mines with...