Well, it was an article about *battleships*. Speaking of tin can sailors, though, check out the recent videos of the USS Kidd being moved from her berth in Baton Rouge, down the Mississippi for drydock work in Houma.
...During the Second World War, USS Washington scored the sole one-on-one battleship kill...
A worthy one for the list. Washington's action in the naval battle of Guadalcanal is the nearest thing to a Jutland-style surface battle seen in WWII. Willis Lee's ship didn't just decisively defeat Kirishima, she landed twenty 16" shells on target in mere minutes. Kirishima was out of the fight after the first broadside hit.
And by Pearl Harbor, we’d already been ramping up for war for almost two years. Conscription was already in place, and our factories had been cranking out tanks, ships and planes for Britain and the Soviet Union.
Yep, by 1939 Hap Arnold had already formed an agreement with the eight largest civilian flight instruction companies in the country to heavily ramp up training, with support from the military. A year later, 50+ primary flight training fields had been created or modified to meet military training needs around the U.S. Actual training - as Arnold had envisioned - was under way one year before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Yeah, a bit further east down I-10 lies the Atchafalaya Basin - there are *big* gators in those cypress swamps. Some of those Cajuns could make good money if this idea caught on.
The woman said she hadn't had Popeyes before and was "excited to try it".
"Been waiting out here three hours so it better be worth it.
"I'm gonna try the burger but we might go big and extravagant today. Go big, go home."
Uhh, *burger*? Popeyes must've expanded the menu for the NZ folks.
The fast-food chicken competition is definitely getting multi-national, some Filipino restaurant chain (Jollibee) opened a location in the Dallas area not long ago. And of course there are the Korean places that serve wings, strips, tenders, nuggets, etc., like Bonchon.
From Lake Ponchartrain to the river, New Orleans will be free.
Let's try...
"From Lake Pontchartrain to the river levee, Chocolate City will be free".
See, with the rhyme and meter smoothed out, it works better through a bullhorn.
Kenner... historically pronounced "Ken-nuh" by the locals. Over the past twenty years or so, people moving *out* of Kenner took to using the "Ken-yuh" pronunciation.
I can pretty much guess who Sheila has in mind to serve on the "commission". Perhaps they'd get more traction is selling this bit of extortion if they entertained Joe with an old classic work song.