Argghhh!

Ah - Me thinks I found the one and only part of the Royal Wedding, that Massa John may like...

Yesterday Israel held observances for Yom HaShoah Day...

A boring treatise on an obscure topic... my specialty. You can blame Sezageoff for this - he's the one who didn't know about the early-style cones.

The Medal waits until 1876 to show itself, during the Interim Awards, 1871-1898 period, with a sailor saving a drowning shipmate. This is another of those circumstances where today they would be awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism not involving combat. I know for you regular readers that gets a little tiresome to read - but take one for the Googlers, who may read only one in the whole series. COREY, WILLIAM Rank and organization: Landsman, U.S. Navy. Born: 1853, New York, N.Y. Accredited...

After taking yesterday completely off, the Medal of Honor went back to work on 3 August, back in the Civil War. If the name seems familiar to you Redlegs in the readership - Lawton, Oklahoma home of Fort Sill and the Field Artillery, is named for MG Lawton - who had a long, distinguished career that was ended by a sniper's bullet in the Philippines. In a little twist of the dagger of irony, Lawton, who commanded the troops who escorted Geronimo from Fort Sill to Florida, was killed by an insurrecto...

Having known a couple who lost a child in the Long War, watching this only reinforces my fervent hope that the current occupant of the White House is repudiated decisively in November.

Blogging has some pluses. One of them is being big enough in reach that people send you presents, hoping to entice you to write about them. My new bestest friends in the whole world are the guys and gals at Luckygunner.com . Earlier this week, the Big Brown Toy Delivery vehicle dropped off a package blazoned with ORM-D, which is shipping code for "Other Regulated Material - Domestic." I.e., hazmat of some sort. When something marked like that shows up at Castle Argghhh!, it's almost...

...on the ABC's of Aging, and since there are a whole friggin' boatload several Castle residents who have passed the mid-century mark, I'd just like to offer this cautionary tale as a helpful reminder to anyone planning to visit the doc for a checkup (do that fast, before ObamaCare kicks in, cuz chances are your present doc will have switched to a more lucrative line of work, such as panhandling):An ol' guy (I'll call him Bob, because I can) goes for a physical. All of his tests...