And Don’t Think It’s Escaped My Attention…
By Mitch Berg
By Mitch Berg
…that two straight rememberances of American military veterans have coincided with seventieth-anniversaries of stories of British heroism – Dunkirk this past Memorial Day, and Taranto today.
It’ll all balance out in the end. There’s still five more years of WWII to do…
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November 11th, 2010 at 11:26 pm
Mitch,
Check KSTP web site on their welfare fraud story they ran. Especially the part on Republican vs Democrat efforts to block fraud. It will be worth your time.
November 12th, 2010 at 9:59 am
70 years ago today marked the epic battle of the 17th at Pearl Harbor Country Club. The 17th, a 195-yard par 3 is a notorious round killer and on this day General Short carded a disastrous 98!
Meantime, General MacArthur was smoking his pipe in his living room at the Manila Hotel. Little did he know…
2011 should have some interesting anniversaries for the Americans.
November 12th, 2010 at 10:20 am
Chuck,
Will do.
Tony,
There will be quite a few in 2012, actually. The main point of the series is to cover the stories most Americans don’t know about, especially the stuff where conventional wisdom and the traditional American history curriculum is just plain wrong, and/or the unheralded stuff that made a huge but unsung difference in history.
No golf stories yet, tho.