Posted on 10/16/2019 1:14:08 PM PDT by fugazi
Today’s post is in honor of three 716th Military Police Battalion soldiers killed during a firefight in Karbala, Iraq on this date in 2003. Killed were Lt. Col. Kim S. Orlando (43, of Tennessee), SSgt. Joseph P. Bellavia (28, Wakefield, Mass.), and Cpl. Sean R. Grilley (24, San Bernardino, Calif.) Orlando was battalion commander and had served in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Seven U.S. soldiers were wounded in the attack.
1821: The schooner USS Enterprise (the third of 12 so-named Continental and U.S. Naval vessels) intercepts a flotilla of four ships led by the infamous Capt. Charles Gibbs as the pirates attack American and British-flagged ships in Cuban waters. Although outnumbered, Lt. Cmdr. John Kearney and his crew quickly defeat the pirate force, and Gibbs escapes into the jungles of Cuba as three of his ships are burned. Gibbs will eventually be caught and is one of the last people executed for piracy in the United States.
1859: A small party of abolitionists led by John Brown occupies the military arsenal at Harper’s Ferry (modern-day West Virginia), hoping to inspire a slave rebellion. However, Brown’s uprising does not materialize and local militia force the rebels into a firehouse. A company of Marines under the command of Brevet Colonel Robert E. Lee is dispatched to the scene and after an unsuccessful attempt by Lee’s aide-de-camp, Lt. J.E.B. Stuart, to convince Brown to surrender, the Marines assault the barricaded fire station and bring an end to the crisis.
1918: When all other members of his machine gun detachment are killed or wounded, Pvt. Thomas C. Neibaur foils an entire German counterattack by himself. Four enemy soldiers attempt to kill him at close quarters, but the wounded Neibaur manages to kill them, and captures another 11 with his pistol. For
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Never figured out how Brown could be convicted and executed for treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia when he wasn’t born there and had never lived there.
A highly fictitious version of John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry is on Grit TV right now. Stars Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Raymond Massey, and Olivia de Havilland.
Left out the title: Santa Fe Trail.
If the South had been allowed to secede peacefully, as was their constitutional right, slavery would’ve died a natural death, just as it did every where else in the West.
Chances are, the 50 states would now be decentralized into at least six different governing entities of states, and would never have gone into World War 1, which directly led to World War 2.
Not to mention that there never would’ve been an impetus to get involved in the colonial adventurism of the Middle East, with all of it’s attendant disasters.
But, you’ll never see that argument explored in federal government/NEA history books.
Video of the “Clipper Sovereign Of The Skies” ditching taken from the Coast Guard cutter USCGC Pontchartrain.
https://www.panam.org/what-s-new/355-clipper-romance-of-the-skies.html
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Instead they chose to fight for an institution that you believe would have died out eventually. Not very smart of them I guess.
But, you’ll never see that argument explored in federal government/NEA history books.
Gee, I wonder why?
Knew Kim Orlando personally.
He was a good man.
Absolute worse day in Iraq that go around.
RLTW
The loss of good soldiers is the definition of war. Good people going in harms way is why we are still free. That fact don’t make it easier but “lest we forget”. It’s the debt we carry and a heavy load for the families. We swear the oath, we never unswear it.
Great video!
And today we’d be a Balkanizied country.
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