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Today we open with 2nd Manassas, and not a flag capture, but a few flag rescues. Sergeant Haight and Private Rhodes are cited for conspicuous gallantry on several occasions. Not to mention the Adjutant leading the charge across the burning bridge.CONNER, RICHARD Rank and organization. Private, Company F, 6th New Jersey Infantry. Place and date: At Bull Run, Va., 30 August 1862. Entered service at: ------. Birth: Philadelphia, Pa. Date of issue: 17 September 1897. Citation: The flag of his regiment...

So, yesterday, there was this discussion on a Facebook post (where I posted the "Keep Calm and Fix Bayonets" picture)... Leslie Applegate ‎"Fix" bayonets???? Were they broken?.... 16 hours ago · Like John Donovan Comedy Central on line two. "Fix bayonets" is shorthand for "Affix Bayonets." We're into brevity. 16 hours ago · Like · 1 Leslie Applegate Sorry, my shotgun doesn't have a lug to attach anything except a flashlight...

Today is ANZAC Day, the Australia-New Zealand equivalent to Memorial Day. New Zealand Website on ANZAC Day. The Australian Equivalent . The Gallipoli Campaign was the brainchild of Winston Churchill, an attempt to force the Dardanelles and reach the Black Sea, freeing up the Russian Black Sea Fleet and opening up new routes of supply and a new thrust at the Austrians and Germans via the Balkans. Churchill really had the hots for the idea that Italy and the Balkans represented the "soft underbelly"...

Marking the passing of someone who has literally touched us all, in a tangential, ghostly way. John – Pass a note to Fiddler’s Green – heave ho, sailor inbound. Gloria’s dad, Lowell S. (Mike) Michels passed this morning, finally free from that cursed disease, Alzheimer’s. He was a wonderful man and made a real contribution to society. He joined the Navy just before the end of WWII and was one of the early discharges that came at the end of the war – serving just...

Okay, the whatzis was an M65 Battery Commander's Periscope, on the M48 mount, with a small tripod that actually was developed for the intended replacement of the M75, the M43. Bill, Blake and I (and I'm sure others of you) used these instruments back in the day, before they were replaced by frankly more useful laser instruments. These things are heavy, being made of brass and steel, with a fair amount of glass in the optics. The odd color that many of you commented on was an artifact of bad...

How low has dipped the inspiring rhetoric of the party of John Kennedy in terms of lofty goals and ideals?Kennedy said in his speech to Congress in May 1961:"First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him back safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult...

Check your powers of deduction, and see if you can figure out exactly *when* it started in each of the following scenarios:I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift. The next year, I didn't get her a gift at all. When she asked me why, I replied, "Well, you still haven't used the gift I bought you last year!"And ...______________________________ My wife and I were watching "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" while we were in bed. I turned to her...