They were so named for their crimson-red, keystone-shaped insignia, which resembled a bucket of blood.
Posted on 09/23/2007 8:54:51 AM PDT by submarinerswife
Edited on 09/23/2007 9:01:27 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Premeires tonight at 8pm on PBS. 7 part series
He so ached to be home when he heard it.
Daniel Inoye was in it.....isn’t he a politician?
I’ve started a “Part 2” thread, in case posters find one thread to cover
all the comments/critiques on the whole series a bit insufficient.
If most folks stay here, this post will just be sure that any that post
to the second thread are easily found via this URL:
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They were so named for their crimson-red, keystone-shaped insignia, which resembled a bucket of blood.
Plus Burns (represented by his stand in) will surely drone on about internment camps. I agree they weren’t right, but damn...keep it in perspective.
That would be Luverne, Minnesota. Ya Sure. You Betcha. Uffda
My wife and I lived in the Seashore Manor Retirement Home. It was just off-base across the railroad tracks from the south base of the triangle area. The unattended gate was only opened during the day.
It was a Methodist affiliated community and they leased a percentage of apartments to young Air Force couples to keep the retirees involved and active. The sweet older women were also a great benefit for wives that were often away from their mothers for the first time.
They closed it last month due to the impact that Katrina had. It came through Hurricane Camille but Katrina blew air conditioning units into the rooms and broke windows. The Methodist Church decided that it to great a risk for frail elders to live there.
Caserine pass on now.
I think you're probably right. It looks like what someone's doing is taking the total number of troops (about 12 million) and dividing by the percentage of Latinos they think is in the population. But that figure changed over the years with immigration.
Something else that needs to be taken into account is that many Mexicans in the country then had children in Mexico, not in the US, so the number of draftable young men may not have been as high as one might think.
One caveat: in some states Latinos may have been numbered as White (or Indian or "Colored") so one can't wholly trust the figures of the time.
Finding it difficult to combat an insurrection that had the support of the population, the British concentrated the civilian population in 'concentration camps,' and thus were able to isolate the Boer fighters and deprive them of civilian support.
About Ken Burns 'The War,' I thought it was okay, but not as good as his Civil War series. But then, I already knew a lot more about WWII than I did about the Civil War. I didn't learn anything during the first part. Thought the small hits at McArthur were interesting.
Don’t underestimate the suburban kids. Once they are toughened up by training. They have the advantage of better health care and nutrition than farm kids of seventy years ago.
Actually the person on cspan discussing the greater than average number of Special Forces troops from rural backgrounds was talking about currently serving military forces.
I agree with that. Family farms are not only economic and social enterprises, they also contribute to national defense.
Generally, farm boys do a lot of hunting, are used to moving through woods and fields, are strong, independent and hard working. A good friend of mine was a farm boy and was a platoon sergeant in Viet Nam. He was a paratrooper, ranger and a good, solid man who took care of his guys, though still lost some.
When WW II began, the term was deemed neutral and bureaucratic. It did not become baleful until Hitler's camps were revealed at the end of the war.
And even more importantly, the truth gives us perspective on what's happening today.
Yeah, it's like only the most important naval battle since the Spanish Armada. / sarcasm
Rural and small town folks are much more likely to go into the military.
This series, alone, will be responsible for stirring Americans to their former glory. What better method than this real art to remind America of the threats presented by dictators and facists...and to ensure they brace for the coming war against the jihadis.
The leftest always assumes that humanity can't be trusted to exist on its own without their social engineer's manipulations holding it in check. At multiple levels his viewpoint disagrees with my individuality.
He believes The Capitol is "the place our government works. It's the engine of democracy . . . ", and he immediately gets it fundamentally wrong. The United States is not a democracy. And government only drives a man to drink or suicide.
Liberals believe trade unions protect craft from corporate evil instead of the reality that they cause the destruction of industry, the economy and perpetrate criminal thuggery.
Liberals can't resist injecting their opinion into what should be only a history, with the intent to "adjust" future public opinion to their world view. I don't wish to visit the Enola Gay at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center and be offended with a display moralizing about the evils of nuclear warfare such as almost happened fifteen years ago. I don't feel the need to watch a documentary of War that will only be more of that.
Your favorite general said, "War is Hell!" Any moralizing beyond that is a fool's mission and an exercise in futility.
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