Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Never Forget the sacrifices of that generation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Balz, SASS#46599 Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Only two remain, col cole is still flying too Truly inspiring heroes, gratitude to all for their service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Quite the day in history. Also the date of the ride of Revere, Dawes and Prescott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 18, 2015 Author Share Posted April 18, 2015 Yep. I visited the Lexington Green and Concord Bridge. Thing look a lot different now than then. But I had a feel of history during my visit. Same with Gettysburg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlands Bob #61228 Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Yep. I visited the Lexington Green and Concord Bridge. Thing look a lot different now than then. But I had a feel of history during my visit. Same with Gettysburg. I'll have to take your word for it. That was before my time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 18, 2015 Author Share Posted April 18, 2015 Just a Baby! Look what you missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 As the poet said "Twas the 18th of April in 75, hardly a man is now alive that remembers that famous day and year" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 As the poet said "Twas the 18th of April in 75, hardly a man is now alive that remembers that famous day and year" Quite possibly the reason the other two riders have all but been forgotten by history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Yeah it ain't what you do it's what your press agent can get historians to think you did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Yeah it ain't what you do it's what your press agent can get historians to think you did. Sums it up pretty well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 18, 2015 Author Share Posted April 18, 2015 Granted, Paul had a better press agent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Never Forget the sacrifices of that generation. I haven't. Nor have I forgot the ones who went before or after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Bullweed Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/669302/posts Make sure to read down through the part about the friendship medals. Outstanding Americans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 I'll have to take your word for it. That was before my time. Gettysburg make the hair on my neck stand up. Awesome place. Most impressive is the willingness of the soldiers to follow orders leading them to sure death and destruction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seldom Seen #16162 Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Many folks may not realize that Doolittle's raid was the start of offensive military campaign against Japan which did not end until Japan's surrender. The U.S. never went back on the defense after Doolittle's mission although things did get mighty dicey at times. The American Civil War still amazes me. I have yet to understand the courage of men who knew the day before they would be going into battle lined up like tin soldiers to be shot at with well entrenched opponents with artillery and rifles and would suffer huge number of their friends killed or maimed. The attack of Fort Wagner by the 54th Massachusetts is a amazing example of courage and sense of duty. “The general called out the bearer of the national colors, and grasped the flag. ‘If this man should fall, who will lift the flag and carry it on?’ After the briefest of pauses, Shaw stepped forward, and taking a cigar from between his teeth responded, ‘I will.’ The colonel’s pledge elicited what Adjutant Garth Wilkinson James later described as ‘the deafening cheers of this mighty host of men, about to plunge themselves into the fiery vortex of hell:’ Daylight revealed the full extent of the Federal disaster. ‘In front of the fort the scene of carnage is indescribable,’ Taliaferro wrote. ‘I have never seen so many dead in the same space.’ At a cost of 36 killed and 145 wounded and missing, Taliaferro garrison had inflicted more than 1,500 casualties on their assailants. Of the 624 brave soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts had sustained the heaviest loss–281 men, of whom 54 were killed or fatally wounded, and another 48 never accounted for (45% casualties). But the other regiments had paid almost as great a price. The 7th New Hampshire alone counted 77 killed or mortally wounded, 11 of whom were officers.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 19, 2015 Author Share Posted April 19, 2015 Those folks had some brass ones alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Our local paper is celebrating it's 200th anniversary. They've been printing front pages from dates. Today's announced the Doolittle raid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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