The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Sgt Benjamin Franklin Scribner - Warrior Wednesday - Mar. 5th, 2003

http://www.hillsdale.edu/academics/history/War/America/Mexican/1847-BuenaVista-Scribner.htm ^

[Pern]

Thanks for another wonderful "Foxhole' thread!

[SAMWolf]

1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton MO)

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow."

Winston Churchill

[E.G.C.]

Welcome to the Foxhole and to Free Republic. I hope you enjoy your stay here.

[E.G.C.]

Welcome to the Foxhole and to Free Republic. I hope you enjoy your stay here.

[SAMWolf]

Good Morniing Jen.

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning kilowhskey and Wavyhill. Welcome to the Foxhole.

[Jen]

THANK YOU dware for organizing and heading this ongoing project!!!

(Click the soldier)

Support Our Troops Through
Operation Phone Home

[SAMWolf]

Yeah, right, I'm heating up the pokers as I type.

[SAMWolf]

Morning GailA, another good one!

[Soaring Feather]

FOXHOLE WELCOMES GO TO

kilowhskey Wavyhill !

[SAMWolf]

You're welcome, Pern.

[WhiskeyPapa]

This poem was recited in "The Divided Union" series on the Civil War. How odd. Well, it is a great poem.

Walt

[Jen]

An amazing first-person account. Thank you Sam!

This part underscores the importance of family and public support for our warriors - and mail call!

While in the second ravine, the sun shining with burning heat, famishing for want of water, and almost overcome with exertions, I leaned against a rocky precipice, and there made up my mind to die. Sad and hopeless were my thoughts, when, raising my head, I beheld the Mexican line firing down upon us. At this I was involuntarily aroused, and recollecting an expression in Mrs. W.'s letter, "If you should die, it would kill your mother," I made an effort for those I loved and gained the summit.

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Please everyone, send an encouraging email message to our deployed troops through:

Operation Dear Abby

[SAMWolf]

Theodore O'Hara

O'HARA, Theodore, poet, born in Danville, Kentucky, 11 February, 1820; died near Guerryton, Bullock County, Alabama, 6 June, 1867. He was the son of Kane O'Hara, an Irish political exile, and was graduated at St. Joseph academy, Bardstown, Kentucky, where he entered the senior class and acted as professor of Greek while he was completing his studies. He then read law, was admitted to the bar, and in 1845 was appointed to a place in the treasury department at Washington. At the beginning of the Mexican war he entered the army, and was appointed captain and assistant quartermaster of volunteers, 26 June, 1846. He was brevetted major, 20 August, 1847, for gallant conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, and was mustered out on 15 October, 1848. He was appointed captain in the 2d cavalry, 3 March, 1855, but resigned on 1 December, 1856. When the remains of the Kentucky soldiers that fell at Buena Vista in February, 1847, were removed to their native state, Major O'Hara wrote for the occasion the poem by which he is best known. "The Bivouac of the Dead," which begins with the stanza"

"The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few on Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread"And Glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead."

Lines from this poem are inscribed over the entrances of several of the national cemeteries. At the close of the war Colonel O'Hara returned to Washington, D. C., where he practised his profession. He afterward went with a filibustering expedition to Cuba, and commanded a regiment in the battle of Cardenas, where he was wounded. During the absence of John Forsythe from the United States as minister to Mexico, O'Hara edited the "Mobile Register." he was afterward editorially connected with the Louisville "Times" and the Frankfort, Kentucky, " Yeoman." He was several times intrusted by the government with diplomatic missions, and was especially active in the negotiations regarding the Tehuantepec grant. During the civil war he joined the Confederate army, and was made colonel of the 12th Alabama regiment. Subsequently he served on the staffs of General Albert Sidney Johnston and General John C. Breckinridge. After the war he engaged in the cotton business in Columbus, Georgia, but lost everything" by fire, and retired to a plantation, where he died. After his " Bivouac of the Dead" his best-known poem is "The Old Pioneer." In accordance with a resolution of the Kentucky legislature, his remains were conveyed to that state and buried by the side of those whom he had commemorated. See "O'Hara and His Elegies," by George W. Ranck (Baltimore, 1875).

[Valin]

Mother-In-Law
Ernie K. Doe


(Mother in Law) Mother In Law
(Mother in Law) Mother In Law

The worst person I know
(mother in law, mother in law)
she worries me so
(mother in law, mother in law)
If she'd leave us alone
we would have a happy home
Sent from down below

(Mother in Law) Mother in Law
(Mother in Law) Mother in Law

Satan should be her name
(mother in law, mother in law)
To me they're bout the same
(mother in law, mother in law)
Every time I open my mouth
She steps in, tries to put me out
How could she stoop so low?

(Mother in Law) Mother in Law
(Mother in Law) Mother in Law

I come home with my pay
(mother in law, mother in law)
She asks me what I made
(mother in law, mother in law)
She thinks her advise is a contribution
But if she would leave that would be the solution
And don't come back no more

(Mother in Law) Mother in Law
My... mother in law, ah

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Jen. I rmember how much mail call meant to me wheni I was in.

[Jen]

Cute! How are you Ms Feather?

[Jen]

Hi Pern! It's great to see your post. Thanks for dropping in to the Foxhole this morning.

[Jen]

HAHAHAHA! That's funny, but you should have addressed it to Sam. I had a wonderful mother-in-law.

[Valin]

This poem was recited in "The Divided Union" series on the Civil War.


I've not heard of this(shocking news alert..someone get ahold of Dan Rather) Any idea where a person could get it?