Posted on 02/19/2012 7:43:27 PM PST by stolinsky
“They Died with Their Boots On” is my second favorite western. I especially liked the sequence where they make “Garryowen” the official tune of the “Immortal Seventh Cavalry.” My favorite western? “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.”
I just wonder if my trash is getting picked up tomorrow
George Washington was born on Feb 11th, but moved his birthday to the 22nd when the calendar was adjusted.
A great man, killed by the elites.
GW was dehydrated, so his doctors bled him. That consisted of smearing a Spanish Fly poultice on him around the chest and neck to create blood blisters, and then cutting open the blisters, over and over again, until he died.
Taking it easy on the half day schedule?
The good news is on the half day schedule, it matters less which half you work.
No, just like any other day, I’m in at 06:00 and out at 18:30.
What an idiot. Alvin York was right when he was a pacifist. The German "evildoers" were no more (and possibly less) evil than the Brits and French. WWI made the world safe for Stalin and Hitler. Glorifying that slaughter is sick.
While the general public and most states will refer to this as “Presidents’ Day”, the holiday, though now celebrated on the third Monday of the month of February, is officially known as Washington’s Birthday by the fedgov. That is how I’ll celebrate it.
And severed our last connection to the gold standard.
In 1914, Germany extended all the way from Alsace to the Russian border. (See http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/map01eu.htm) But the Kaiser and his backers wanted even more. So they started an aggressive war, including the introduction of poison gas.
As a result, millions died, Germany was much reduced in size, the Bolshevik Revolution occurred, and the stage was set for World War II. If you don’t think that starting an unnecessary war was “evil,” how about “pretty bad” or at least “controversial”? Nobody I know glorifies slaughter. They glorify heroism.
I’d quibble with your history. Hey, I didn’t notice you were the author - sorry about the name calling. That was inappropriate.
That’s one of my favorite scenes, too. The Brit who taught them “Garryowen” is a fictional character, but Capt. Myles Keogh was born in Ireland and may have been the real source of that song. He died with Custer at Little Big Horn.
You might be interested in the connection between “Garryowen,” the film “We Were Soldiers,” and a hero of 9/11, Rick Rescorla. Check out http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&gbv=2&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=1560l9657l0l10140l22l22l1l10l11l0l250l1717l2.6.3l11l0&q=cache:H2dKf0SR69sJ:http://www.stolinsky.com/news/news/default.asp?PagePosition=258+stolinsky+garry+owen+rescorla&ct=clnk
When I saw “We Were Soldiers...” I was disappointed that the score didn’t have “Garryowen.” I thought that would’ve had a very dramatic effect. Several years ago, my wife and I were on a coach tour of the western national parks, and for me, the highlight was going to Little Bighorn and seeing where Custer had been buried before he was disinterred and reburied at West Point.
The photos in my previous link have disappeared from the Web. A better link is http://www.stolinsky.com/news/news/news_item.asp?NewsID=603
I’ll bet you’ll enjoy them.
Couldn’t get this to open, Stoli.
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