Argghhh!

This panel followed the Band of Brothers , and in some ways it was a bracing reality check. There is so much to be proud of in how America conducted itself--both home and abroad--during World War II, but when we hold the entire panorama up to scrutiny, it makes the failings of that time seem even starker. While the men of Easy Company were being held to the highest standards of training, with the expectation that they would play a vital role in the war, another group of men were being held to the...

Well, since I blew John's bandwidth budget through the oubliette door with last week's episode, and since I regally screwed up am still experimenting with font sizes for the snarky asides that save me a lot of drawing clever notices that so edgily break the fourth wall, I figured I'd better just go with a link to the toon.Not that the readability is *all* that farked up compromised when the 'toon gets shrunk to 572 pixels.As long as you have a 20X magnifying glass handy.Okay, okay...

I didn't have a TV when Benson first aired, but I enjoyed it in reruns and so was happy to find it on Hulu yesterday. This morning I discovered season 1, episode 5 , and the last few minutes of the show just about made me fall out of my chair with laughter. Oh, the parallels! Setting: It's 1979 and the governor misses his 8-year-old daughter's school play because the president has called him to the White House and the governor's state desperately needs help that the president can...

...will, for many troops, "look remarkably the same as any other day." I know Colonel George from my time at Fort Leavenworth. He commands the 4-4 IBCT of the 10th Mountain. Note the joint nature of the "Infantry Brigade Combat Team."Hello Everyone,Below is COL George's Thanksgiving Message to Task Force Mountain Warrior that he wanted to share with everyone back home. On behalf of COL George and the rest of our Mountain Warriors, Happy Thanksgiving.To the Soldiers, Sailors...

Heartless Libertarian, who even as we speak is fighting the fight, sends greetings: Ya'll have some extra turkey, and make sure you put extra butter on the mashed potatoes for me, OK? And root for whatever team is playing against the Cowboys! Well, here at the Castle, we'll be having a standing rib roast, but we're with him on that Cowboys thing!

Wars generally don't take holidays, as the Medal of Honor posts show for the last few and next few days of this shifting observance. And of course, around Christmas, we'll be in the range of days for the Battle of the Bulge, and the fight at Fort Fisher during the Civil War. There are six Medals awarded for actions on this day in history, spanning from the Civil War to Korea. Two were posthumous awards.Civil WarPOWELL, WILLIAM H. Rank and organization: Major, 2d West Virginia Cavalry. Place...

That's what I've been hearing from the kaydets, non-stop. Yup, they know about Americans and Thanksgiving -- they're just a little hazy on whether we eat turkey because it's a Thanksgiving tradition, or we started the Thanksgiving tradition as an excuse to eat turkey.I'm knocking off work early, but if I come back and see any comments dated *today*, I'll give ya'll a scathing lecture on *priorities*......