Hale!
Epic win!
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Fire away.
“FAMOUS WAR OF 1812 QUOTE:
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819)
American Navy officer
The immortal message Perry sent on September 10, 1813 to U.S. General William Henry Harrison about the Battle of Lake Erie. That day, American ships under Perry’s command defeated a British naval squadron and captured all of the British ships. After the battle, Perry scrawled a brief report to Harrison on the back of an envelope. It said: “Dear General: We have met the enemy and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop. Yours with great respect and esteem, O.H. Perry.” The first sentence became one of the most famous U.S. Navy quotations in history.”
200 years ago TODAY. Perry lost his flagship but won the battle of Lake Erie.
http://www.quotecounterquote.com/2010/09/we-have-met-enemy-and-they-are-ours.html
Give us some sound tomorrow, boys. THAT enemy in toto is ours, too.
My Dear Brother Boots:
This is an extraordinary day indeed...
Renews my faith in my Countrymen... even those guys in New York!!! (hahah!!) (And GOOD ON YA, New Yorkers, for tossing Weiner and Spitzer - those PUTZES- out on their asses).