Long may she wave…
Over the land of the free…
…and the home of the brave.
The History Department of the United States Naval Academy has resumed its sponsorship of the biennial Annapolis Naval History Symposia. (The last scheduled Symposium had had to be cancelled due to the events of 9-11-2001). The next Symposium will take place 20-22 September 2007 (with the following one scheduled for 2009). PROGRAM: (See Program here)…
Tomorrow we will have our Independence Day post up and in the busy comings goings of a three-day weekend, we encourage one and all to pause and ponder those words — mere words in some folks’ opinion; that our forefathers penned in Philadelphia that hot summer of 1776. Men had already died in the cause…
So – a very good discussion on Midrats yesterday that included a look at China’s maritime claims in the ECS/SCS and regional responses – which of late have seen a ratcheting up of forces in the area. In the wake of that discussion, I came across the illustration below:    of a cover for a…
This is an entry I would have preferred not to have published, but there are limits to what we can control in life, and apparently I have passed one of those limits. — Andy Olmstead Andy Olmsted was a blogger who wrote for several blogs including Winds of Change and had a column in…
…The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the…
Given this week’s observance of the 70th Anniversary of the Doolittle Raid, thought it only fitting to pass a couple of videos your way… Actual footage: …and there’s more below the fold.
