At the University of Illinois they’re still lying about what happened to U.S. Navy Ensign Wesley Frank Osmus, sixty-nine years after he crashed his TBD Devastator into the Pacific in 1942.
Osmus did not, as the university claims, “die as a result of enemy action.” He was murdered by Japanese war criminals. Academia these days seems to be all of a piece. A sorry, prevaricating (when not actually lying) piece of cowardice.
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Posted in Library, Scribbles, Troops
Tagged Battle of Midway, Ensign Wesley Frank Osmus, University of Illinois
It’s hard for me to believe that this young Rebel in his mounted rifles Hardee hat could be unidentified, even after all these years. He’s a handsome fellow and his pose, on a simple chair without any painted background and minus the usual bellicose weaponry, is thoughtful and loving. Somebody’s Darling, no doubt. Yet, somehow, his descendants lost, or even worse sold, this likeness of him. And today no one seems to know who he was. R.I.P.
Via Dead Confederates.
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Posted in Civil War, Scribbles, Troops
Tagged "Somebody's Darling", American Civil War, Hardee hat, Rebel soldiers
“Banning ROTC at the Ivies is as damaging to the military as banning recruitment at Vassar would be to the NFL.”
Heh.
Via Instapundit.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles, The War, Troops
Tagged Ivy League, military recruiting, ROTC
Praise where praise is overdue.
“DEAR LEADER KIM JONG IL ANNOUNCES BRAVE TRUTHSEEKERS TO RECEIVE MEDALS FROM DEMOKRATIK PEOPRE’S REPUBRIK OF KOREA –
(Pyongyang) Rooters News Agency
The Dear Leader announced today that Wikireaks founder Jurian Assange and US Army Private First Crass Bradrey Manning are to receive the highest recognition that a non-citizen can receive, The Order Of Friendship – First Crass™”
Read it all, comrade. That’s an order.
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Tagged dear leader, kim jong il, Peoples Cube, Wikileaks
Seems military recruitment and other buildings, such as the Pentagon, are taking rounds from a mysterious, apparently amateur, shooter whose ballistics match. In five incidents since Oct. 17, s/he fortunately hasn’t hit anyone.
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Posted in Blogosphere, The War, Troops
Tagged D.C. sniper, Jihad, military center shootings
Looks like a, uh, twelve gauge to me. The gun, I mean, of course, the gun.
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Posted in Rule 5, Scribbles, The War, Troops
Tagged Rule 5, U.S. Coast Guard, Women With Guns
Start with the latest:
Died November 27, 2010 serving during Operation Enduring Freedom
Age 24, of Mesquite, Tex.; assigned to Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, at Ft. Polk, La.; died Nov. 27 in Wardak province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with a rocket-propelled grenade.
When W was president, the legacy media was clamoring to photograph the latest dead hero’s arrival home. Now that a Democrat is, there’s a blackout on that aspect of the war. Strange how that works, eh?
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Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Texana, The War, Troops
Tagged 10th Mountain Division, Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom, Pvt. Devon J. Harris
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 