This part — The Battle of Foy — is one of my favorite parts of Band of Brothers.
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The first part of this video actually makes me sick to my stomach. Spears however, is awesome.
Yeah, “favorite” may not be the right word… or I don’t mean it flippantly. Spears was great.
Really need to own this movie at some point. If anyone’s upgraded to Blu-Ray, I’ll gladly give fair price for your old DVDs. Oh, we affiliated with Warner Bros./HBO also appreciate your business.
Yeah – I’d have to go with favorite part, too. 2 reasons – 1st, Lt. Spears saving the day and 2nd, because of the recognition of 1st Sergeant Lipton. Lipton held the men together, while their C.O. was busy calling HQ.
It’s great.
Eric, I have the DVD’s you can have, but you owe me something we have discussed first.
Working on it. Will see my connection in two weeks. In the interim, please be careful with those umping jabs, deserved or not.
You’re the greatest umpire ever Uncle Eric.
Oh, now I know you’re lying, as does anyone who witnessed the final three innings at Burbank High last night.
They’ll get over it.
Velasquez,Portrait of Sebastian de Morra
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rAP7ANVaqF8/TpE6w9FrprI/AAAAAAAADXc/Ikf54TaKAMo/s1600/Dwarf+Sebastian+de+Morra_Prado_c.1645.jpg
The Spanish Hapsburgs for some reason like to collect dwarfs for the court…cruel jest was part of it,I guess,but they could be treated quite well also,better than they would in ordinary society.
Frederick William I of Prussia (Frederick the Great’s father) used to collect giants even kidnapping them into service whenever he could find them (well over 6 footers of course).
It’s good to be the King!
True,the Potsdamer Giants.If you wanted to wheedle a favor out the King of Prussia,you’d send him a giant or two.
“Excuse me, Kingey. I have a giant favor to ask you.”
The Shores of Tripoli!
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-most-daring-act-of-the-age
Take that,ragheads.
Interesting. Now I know it is those nine U.S. Marines who are referred to in the hymn. I’ll have to research the Halls of Montezuma now.
The assault on Chapultepec Castle,Mexico City,by Winfield Scott’s forces…of course it was mostly US Army.
And the Mexicans are still pissed.
“of course it was mostly US Army.” …and who gets the credit? My Dad ran into the same thing – “cleaning up” after the Marines raced through Okinawa.
Rest assured anything the Marines are ever involved in you will hear about it infinitum.
Unless of course it’s Clayton Longtree, Lee Harvey or Charles Whitman.
The troops that recaptured Harper’s Ferry,Virginia from John Brown were Marines,led by Army Lt. Colonel Robert E. Lee.Not sure why.
Robert E. Lee was an engineer, something the Marines don’t have…that might have had something to do with it. Not that familiar with my Civl War era history.
The fact that Marines don’t have combat engineers is the reason the Army breached the barriers for them during the second battle of Falujah. Something they are loathe to reveal.
(I misspoke, A helpful reader has informed me that the marines do in fact have engineers, apologies to anyone who may have been mislead and or confused by my lack of knowledge.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee#Combat_engineer_career
Something I didn’t know about Lee…much obliged.
First great Union victory of the Civil War
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/capture-of-fort-donelson
Visited that site once,a serenely beautiful place on the Cumberland.The Confederate general who surrendered to Grant was his old friend and West Point classmate Simon Bolivar Buckner.Interestingly,Buckner’s son and namesake was the U.S Army commander on Okinawa in 1945…he was the highest ranking officer to be killed in the Second World War.
Simon Bolivar Buckner. Fascinating name. I wonder if our guys pronounced it the Anglicized “Simon” as in “Simple Simon,” or kept the Spanish pronunciation “see-MOAN.”
Town near Memphis called Boliver,pronounced “BAWLiver”
From Ramsbury at War:
“The spade symbol (as used on playing cards) was applied to each side of all 506th helmets sometime towards the end of May 1944. It’s intention was to act as a recognition flash so that members of the regiment could easily identify each other in battle.”
And no chin straps. We know why. Thank you, Loyal Goatherd.
Thank Audie Murphy…….
Saw his statue today just off of I-30 near Greenville, TX
By the way what kind of world is it that I live in that kids in Rockwall, TX are playing Lacrosse? One of the signs that we’ve got way too many ‘feriners in this state.
I hope they were at least playing lacrosse “Texas style”,ie no helmets or at the very least no chin straps.
Nope all the standard gear…the onetime little country town of Rockwall has become neuvo-riche central. Damn them, damn them all to hell.
Some measure progress in Skinny Caramel Macchiatoes… cue the Heston “you brewed it up, G-d damn y’all to hell” At least Nova can’t b*tch about her furry drawers being out of style!
Rest assured there was a Starbucks nearby.
Coffee, krullers and “cost”! As in, “How much is this costing the taxpayers?”
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-treats-himself-boys-weekend-florida-095913407–politics.html
He’s a sonuvabitch.
TPMCI That pretty much covers it!
Floyd golfs in Oklahoma!
http://kfor.com/2013/02/12/porta-potty-meth-lab-found-on-golf-course/
Some great photos,post war
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/world-war-ii-after-the-war/100180/
Notice the photo of Hiroshima…Victor Davis Hansen recently remarked that at that moment Detroit was one of the world’s greatest cities,and that now it looks a lot like Hiroshima in 1945.And that now Hiroshima is a thriving city.
Here’s the rest of it
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/pages/ww2/
Check out the one on the Battle of Britain,and the pic of Princess Elizabeth.
Great pix, Scott M.
Hot Tunisian Woman 1, Islamic Fundamentalists 0. (This is awesome) http://imgur.com/9h1LwKF
France ruled Tunisia for a while….called civilization.
OMG, Geekquake!!!! Still hoping it’s satire
The Marine Corps does have combat engineers, although they may have used Army assets as the Marine is much smaller. Did not serve in Fallujah until May 2005, but did serve in a section with combat engineers and Navy Sea Bees.
Since we do so much with so little, yea we get more than our percentage of press.
We love all y’all!!!
“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.”
Ronald Reagan
I give you all all of the credit all of the time. God bless our armed forces always.
That question mark is a maverick steer in the herd.
What question mark?
You’reED’s the best!I misspoke, the Marines don’t have Combat Engineer vehicles or the stuff required for mass breaching of enemy fortifications, which makes since since they aren’t made to fight mass armor battles. I flew in support of OP Phantom Fury in NOV 04 and was on station north of the city the day before the battle began. We worked for Marine Corps ground units and 1st CAV’s 2nd BDE during the battle along with the other stuff we were tasked with in Sadr City and Baghdad.
Like I said, we love all y’all.