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Slim Paley 5/25/2013
It begins with my mother’s recollection of a visit to Belgium on her honeymoon 50+ years ago… …My father’s grandfather had been a soldier in the 1st World War. He lost his life, alongside literally thousands of others that day in Belgium, in 1915. Seemingly […] May 26th, 2013 | Tags: "In Flanders Fields", John McCrae, Memorial Day | Category: Bloggers, Europe, History, Military, World War I | Comments are closed
Prince Harry, on a seven-day tour of the US, pays his respects to servicemen and women who fought and died for the country.
The prince salutes a wreath laid at the gravestone of a US soldier
Sky News 10 May 2013 Prince Harry has honoured America’s war dead with floral tributes […] May 10th, 2013 | Tags: Arlington National Cemetery, Chindits, Major General Orde Wingate, Michael L Stansberry Jr, Navy Seal Team 6, President John F. Kennedy, Prince Harry, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, war | Category: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Great Britain, Iraq, Military, United States, World War I, World War II | Comments are closed
An American Housewife (occasionally) in London 11/11/2012 In the US we know, vaguely, of November 11th as Veteran’s Day, which follows the Marine Corps birthday by a day. Sadly, it isn’t much noticed. Memorial Day in May is bigger in the national consciousness. In the UK Remembrance Sunday is held the closest Sunday […] November 11th, 2012 | Tags: "Animal in War" memorial, "In Flanders Fields", Alexis Helmer, Belgium, Boston, Dog Tag Memorial, Enda Kenny, Gen. George S. Patton, George Orwell, Ireland, John McCrae, London, Nowzad Dog [Animal] Rescue, Old North Church, Pen Farthing, poetry, President Ronald Reagan, Queen Elizabeth II, Remembrance Day, service animals, Veterans' Day, Ypres | Category: Afghanistan, Canada, Europe, Great Britain, History, Iraq, Massachusetts, United States, World War I, World War II | Comments are closed
Highmaintfmale YouTube 3/12/2012 Music: Nickelback H/T Breitbart–One Voice Silenced, Millions Awakened, a Facebook account opened in tribute to Andrew after his death (“We are all Andrew Breitbart now). One of today’s entries on their page is a verse I’ve kept taped inside my desk for more than 20 years: “Come to the edge,” he […] March 18th, 2012 | Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Facebook, Guillaume Apollinaire | Category: journalism, Media accountability, Politics, Social networking websites, Tea Parties, Video, World War I | Comments are closed
The Right Scoop 1/6/2012 Rep. Allen West tells Mark Levin that Sen. Mitch McConnell and Sen. John McCain should come before the House GOP conference and explain why they criticized House Republicans on national TV after pulling the rug out from under them during the payroll debacle in December… The audio is at The Right […] January 7th, 2012 | Tags: "Budget Control Act of 2011" (BCA), Alan Grayson, Mark Levin, payroll taxes, Pigford Farms case, redistricting, Rep. Alan Grayson, Rep. Allen West, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Mitch McConnell | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Department of Defense, Federal spending, Florida, Military, National Security, Taxes, World War I, World War II | Comments are closed
Ted Thornhill Daily Mail [UK] 3rd January 2012 It’s a great way to brush up on your history – but some may find parts a bit depressing. YouTube user derDon1234 has squashed 100 years of world events from 1911 to 2011 into a 10-minute clip using authentic footage. It charts some of our greatest achievements, […] January 3rd, 2012 | Tags: 'Arab Spring', 1972 Munich Olympic Games, 1979 Islamic Revolution, 20th Century, 9/11/2001, Albert Einstein, atomic bomb, Berlin Wall, Bhopal, Cassius Clay, Charles Lindbergh, Chernobyl, D-Day, Empire State Building, Fukushima nuclear disaster, Hindenburg disaster, hydrogen bomb, Khmer Rouge, Lockerbie, lunar landing, Mao Zedong, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mohammad Ali, Mohandas Ghandi, Pearl Harbor, Pope John Paul II, President John F. Kennedy, President Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Roald Amundsen, Rwanda, Soviet Union, Spanish Civil War, Spanish Influenza, Sputnik, The Six Day War--1967, Titanic, tsunami, Viet Nam, Weimar Republic | Category: Asia, Barack Obama, China, Communism, Crime, Cuba, Europe, Fascism, Germany, History, Islam, Israel, Middle East, Military, Nazis, North Korea, Politics, Russia, Science/Research/Technology, technology, terrorism, United States, Video, World War I, World War II | Comments are closed
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