April 2010 - Argghhh!

Rita was once educated in the proper use of the English Language...

News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.

There are seventy-six Medals awarded for actions on this day, seventy-five of them from the Civil War, and one from the Indian Wars. There are no posthumous awards. This is the second highest daily total, after August 5th, where the Battle Of Mobile Bay generated 97 Medals of a total of 101 awarded for actions on that day in history.Civil War. The noose around Richmond and the Army of Northern Virginia tightens.ALLEN, ABNER P. Rank and organization: Corporal, Company K, 39th Illinois Infantry. Place...

Monday night, an Open Carry permit holder went to his local pharmacy...

There are twenty-five Medals awarded for actions on this day, from the Civil War to World War II. Two are posthumous.Civil War. Twenty-three Medals, earned during the battles of Appomattox Courthouse (or for the whole campaign) and Fort Blakely, Alabama.CALLAHAN, JOHN H. Rank and organization: Private, Company B, 122d Illinois Infantry. Place and date: At Fort Blakely, Ala., 9 April 1865. Entered service at: Macoupin County, Ill. Birth: Shelby County, Ky. Date of issue: 8 June 1865. Citation: Capture...

Thirty-five years ago today, I was an about-to-graduate high school senior. State wrestling champ, All-state football player, with a scholarship offer from the University of Missouri. Ready to move on to the next phase.I walked down the stairs to where my bedroom was, turned left, and the Auld Soldier was sitting on the couch, watching TV. He was four months away from retiring after 27 years, two wars, a Silver Star, DFC, and seven Purple Hearts.He never noticed me.He was watching the news. He was...

He went in early, on his own (and subscriber's, in a sense) dime, and took with him a greater understanding of what he was seeing and who he was walking with that informed his reporting on the war in ways that the MSM reporters didn't/wouldn't/couldn't.To me he's at his best when he's covering the troops, doing it the Ernie Pyle way. But that's my bias - if I had it in me to do what Mike does, I'd be doing the units, the grunts, the infantillery, the tankers-who-are...

News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.