The Declaration of Independence IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and [...]
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“We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”
Posted in Allow me to get nerdy for a second here on July 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“Duty, Honor, Country”
Posted in Allow me to get nerdy for a second here on June 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
There’s nothing I could say that would add to this: http://www.blackfive.net/main/2010/06/the-meaning-of-duty-honor-country.html
Remembering WWI
Posted in Allow me to get nerdy for a second here on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This article (here at the Economist) about Britain’s last two WWI veterans is moving and a little haunting. It brought back memories for me of Dr. Conner’s class and the nightmares that I got even reading about Verdun. I don’t know about war, I’ve never experienced it or seen really what’s it’s like. But this [...]
Veterans Day
Posted in Allow me to get nerdy for a second here on November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie [...]
Livy says it best…
Posted in Allow me to get nerdy for a second here on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“What chiefly makes the study of history wholesome and profitable is this, that you behold the lessons of every kind of experience set forth as on a conspicuous monument; from these you may choose for yourself and for your own state what to imitate, from these mark for avoidance what is shameful in the conception [...]
valor is not a lost art
Posted in Allow me to get nerdy for a second here on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ripley at the Bridge, on NR Online. Lone Survivor, buy it on Amazon. It’s great to know that warriors exist, that they spend their days defending and advancing freedom, that we can rest easy tonight in our country, knowing that our soldiers are maintaining our rights with their lives. Don’t ever forget the men and [...]
The Evolution of Abraham Lincoln
Posted in Allow me to get nerdy for a second here on November 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be “the Union as it was.” If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do [...]
how the mighty have fallen…
Posted in Allow me to get nerdy for a second here on November 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“It is the shallow fashion of these times to dismiss the Tsarist regime as a purblind, corrupt, incompetent tyranny. But a survey of its thirty months’ war with Germany and Austria should correct these loose impressions and expose the dominant facts. We may measure the strength of the Russian Empire by the battering it had [...]
