The FReeper Foxhole Revisits The Battle at Sidi Bou Zid - Kasserine Pass (WWII) - Feb. 11th, 2005

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[snippy_about_it]

1847 Thomas Alva Edison Milan OH. (held 1200 patents)

US : National Inventors Day

What a coincidence! ;-)

[GailA]

I go to our local quilting guild on Tuesday's. I only bought 1 yard of fabric this time for a planned project. I thought about doing a bow tie pattern in black and white. I really should finish the half dozen projects I have that are in various stages of completion. But I get bored with one after a while, then work on a partially completed one for a while..keeping them mixed up keeps me from getting to bored with one project.

[msdrby]

new camera....hehe, he has yet to see it.

[msdrby]

ooh, quilting, I really would like to know how to quilt.

[snippy_about_it]

...he has yet to see it.

LOL.

[AZamericonnie]

Ray Charles~America

Sorry about that! I renamed the path last night which broke the link I posted.

[USMCEODGUY]

When you get a chance can you check your mail?

Thanks

[Professional Engineer]

1573 1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panamá)

Heh heh heh...you know who strikes again.

[SAMWolf]

Good morning...frost on the windows, bone chilling cold weather....

So when did you move to Oregon?

[Professional Engineer]

How are you enjoying your new camera?

Dunno.

Honey, how am I enjoying the new camera?

[SAMWolf]

[SAMWolf]

I am anxiously awaiting the next book of the triology.

Me too

[SAMWolf]

Morning E.G.C.

Hope your Dad's medicine works for him and he gets better.

[SAMWolf]

Morning PE.

I was expecting a picture if the IRS building. IMHO, the biggest black hole there is.

[colorado tanker]

Thank goodness the Brits talked us into doing North Africa. Getting our butts kicked at Normandy would have been ten times worse than getting our butts kicked at Kasserine.

One thing I have never understood is why Rommel didn't exploit his victory and push into our rear area. There was hardly any resistance left to stop him. Perhaps his logistical situation was even more desperate than I thought.

"An Army At Dawn" is a darn fine read.

[SAMWolf]

1650 René Descartes philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking

The Philosopher's Song

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:
"I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!

(Monty Python)

[SAMWolf]

Morning CT.

A lot of ideas about equipment, deployment and tactics died at Kasserine. Thankfully the American soldier is a fast learner.

[Iris7]

Speaking of the beaches of Normandy and Sidi Bu Zid, Stalin insisted on a "second front" in 1943. Roosevelt pushed to the max to make it happen. Only Churchill and General Marshall together were able to stop the "second front" project and replace it with Torch.

The Canadians who died at Dieppe payed everything to delay the "second front" until "we are ready", as Eisenhower put it. Without Dieppe as a warning of disaster the lefties would have carried the day. Close call.

Speaking of lefties, those people have been a disaster waiting to happen for a long time. We have been able to hold them off thus far. Maybe they will all decide to hang themselves, all at once. THAT would be a sight to behold.

[SAMWolf]

Shortage of supplies and also the command chain was a problem.

Rommel wanted to do one thing, Arnim another and Commando Supremo still another.

It was one of the times Rommel didn't go with his instincts and "bend" his orders.

[SAMWolf]

We were real "cocky", North Africa knocked some of that out of us. A landing in france in 1943 would have been a disaster.