About damn time.
This is Brilliant!
Yes this was my earworm this morning…
A well-deserved end to a career
A question
What in the nine circles of Hell is an “Acting President?”
God save our country
Today’s Earworm
I actively dislike this song, and its performer.
To Appomattox Court House
“A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.”
– Robert E. Lee
Parapet
“I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything? ”
– Abraham Lincoln in response to General McClellan.
Charge!
“My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none.”
– ‘Fighting’ Joe Hooker
On the Line
“General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys? ”
Surprised
“I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.”
– William Tecumseh Sherman
Forging the Bond
“Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.”
– Last words of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Barrage
“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.”
– Nathan Bedford Forrest
The Forgotten Veteran Week at TechnoChitlins
“It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it.”
Doing something different. In these times, it is politically incorrect to recall a certain class of Veterans, those who served for the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War. This is my small remembrance of these men, who are a part of my heritage, regardless of how the political winds blow.
It’s Memorial Day. Remember all of them. In a lost and wrong-headed cause, they gave their all.
Private Kenneth Shadrick, first known casualty of the Korean War- 1950
The first known casualty of the Korean War, on this day in 1950. A mostly forgotten man in a mostly forgotten war.
About 90 minutes after Task Force Smith began its withdrawal from the Battle of Osan, the 34th Infantry sent Shadrick as part of a small scouting force northward to the village of Sojong-ni, 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Osan.[3] The small force, under the command of Lieutenant Charles E. Payne and consisting mostly of bazooka teams and infantry, halted at a graveyard in the village,[13] where they spotted a North Korean T-34/85 tank on a road to the north. Shadrick and the other bazooka operators began firing on the tank from long-range concealed positions[3] at around 16:00.[14] With them was Sergeant Charles R. Turnbull, a US Army combat photographer.[15] Turnbull asked Shadrick to time a bazooka shot so its flash could be caught in Turnbull’s photograph, and Shadrick complied.[3][13] Shadrick made the shot and paused, then rose from his concealed position to see if he had successfully hit the tank, exposing himself. The T-34 returned fire with its machine gun, and two bullets struck Shadrick in the chest and arm. Shadrick died moments later.
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Subsequent publications have shed doubt on the accuracy of the claims of Shadrick’s distinction. Eyewitness accounts at the Battle of Osan point to the first death as a machine gunner in the 21st Infantry Regiment, who had been killed at around 08:30, eight hours before Shadrick’s death. This soldier was killed when a different T-34 tank was disabled at the battle and one of its crew members attacked nearby troops with a PPSh-41 “Burp Gun”. In the confusion of the battle, many of the wounded and dead troops were left behind by retreating American troops, and a large part of the force was also captured; consequently, the identity of this first combat fatality remains a mystery.
Either way, the carnage that began in Sarjevo in 1914 continued its long march through the Twentieth Century. We’re still not done with it today.