It doesn't seem possible but Friday's once again upon us.
It's your day to pick the topic so you might as well get after it.
I hope everyone's weekend is everything you hope it will be...
Kevin McGinty
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Solo Expedition...
I haven't really talked about it much but every other weekend I usually head out by myself. It's usually the day I seek out new fis...
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Have I ever told you about “Lone Duck“ campground? It’s in Cadorado. That’s how my grandson used to pronounce Colorado. You see, we’ve taken...
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Imagine if you will, a world being run by insane people. Hell, you don't have to imagine it. Just look around. Just two short years ago ...
Not liking that Governors poll.
ReplyDeleteYou can't let Davis ruin the state.
Just think of the wing nuts walking the street of San Fransisco,,,
ReplyDeleteokay
Streets of Lawrence
Part one of the forgotten Massacre..
ReplyDeleteStrange, the once obscure villages that war makes unforgettable, forever resonant with the echoes of battle. Gettysburg. Hastings. Lexington and Concord. The fate of nations, and of freedom, was determined by what happened at such places. And their names became indelible. So it is with the names of massacres, too, names soaked in blood and shame. Names like Fort Pillow. That was the Union post in Tennessee just north of Memphis where black troops wearing the uniform of the United States Army were slaughtered. It wouldn't be the first time.
It happened in 1944, too. In the middle of the Battle of the Bulge, the last great German offensive of the war that took the Allies completely by surprise. Having finally broken out of the hedgerows in France, encountered bridges too far and advances suddenly turned into retreats, now the Allied armies were poised on the edge of victory by Christmas. It lay just across the Rhine.
And then ... the panzers were everywhere. The bulge in the Allied lines had erupted, whole divisions were broken and scattered, the outcome of the war itself was in doubt. The front was collapsing.
Then came Malmedy. A lightly armed American convoy trying to escape the rout was captured by the SS near that village, the GIs collected in an open field, and then ... mowed down by machine-gun fire.
When American forces regained the initiative and returned a month later, they would find 84 frozen bodies under the snow. But word of the atrocity had spread within hours of the massacre. And so did the rage. All along Allied lines. And back home, too. The mask of the enemy had been torn away, the evil underneath it revealed. It wasn't necessary to put the order in writing: Take no prisoners. A fever for vengeance took hold, and would have to run its course before it abated.
Who could forget Malmedy?
But who now remembers Wereth? That's the little hamlet where a small detachment of the redoubtable 333rd Field Artillery Battalion had taken refuge. The 333rd, an all-black outfit in those Jim Crow days, had fought its way across northern Europe since D-Day, only to be caught in the Bulge along with the rest of VIII Corps. The detachment had been part of the two batteries left behind to cover the American retreat when the front collapsed.
Mathias and Maria Langer hid the fleeing Americans in their farmhouse, but an informant told the SS about them. The 11 Americans were taken prisoner and marched off. To a small, muddy field where they were shot, but not before being tortured and maimed. Legs were broken, skulls crushed, fingers cut off. Their ordeal must have lasted for the better part of a day; the Americans had become playthings to be torn apart for the amusement of sadists. The 99th Infantry Division would find only their broken remains when it entered the village a month later. Then the Wereth Eleven were pretty much forgotten.
Part 2 Forgotten Massacre..
ReplyDeleteTill half a century later. That's when Hermann Langer, the son of Mathias and Maria, would put up a cross at the site of the Forgotten Massacre. His sister Tina said he was haunted by the memory of the GIs being taken from the farmhouse, and was determined to commemorate the massacre. A decade later, the Belgians would erect a stone monument on the site. They remembered.
Let the country whose uniform these American soldiers remember them, too, on this Memorial Day.
They came from Mississippi and Texas and South Carolina and West Virginia and Texas and Alabama ... and one of them was from Arkansas: PFC Due W. Turner, 38383369, lies buried at Henri-Chapelle, Plot F Row 5 Grave 9. He's officially listed as a native of Columbia County, Arkansas, but last time I looked at the Columbia County Courthouse website, with its picture of the county's monument to its war veterans, there's still an empty space under the list of World War II veterans inscribed there. Let it be filled with the name.
I seen this and I am not sure what to think about it. I always thought Alan west to be on the upper end. So I thought I would let you all read it and see what you think.
ReplyDeleteExclusive: Confidential source reveals to me what really happened in Benghazi
Read more at http://allenbwest.com/2014/05/exclusive-confidential-source-reveals-really-happened-benghazi/#Q6MxfIqXMfOMJ10X.99
Well. It's been a While since I posted it Stan,,
ReplyDeletePlenty of Thumbs down but no rebutle.
they mush be Going nuts trying to Google a Nasty response
CLACKITY CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACKITY!
well that's funny,, a MAJOR incident happens with Guns in this nation and CJ takes it offa the front page.
ReplyDeletejust after some AsS hOLe comes on and says Stans list has been debunked.
with WI KI and then some shit that I didn't bother to read.
ReplyDeleteI just told 'em I TRUST STAN and then said that Guns are here to stay Quit blaming the NRA
You Ass holes Call the cops to bring more guns to deal with guns, Blah, blah
It's the Typical Disarm America Bullshit from the Typical commies.
Vent thanks, You did good with those commies, that is the only way they can control us is have no guns, and like you I say shove it up their ass, that will never happen. take the guns, Guns in this country is the only thing saving their reggie ass and protecting us from this out of control government. I can point and shoot, but I am no good at throwing rocks. The pukes should start looking at the other countries in a mess.
ReplyDeleteHee heee hee I ended it with:
ReplyDelete""I really Don't CARE!
I posted it
either it's true or it's a Lie
to you it 's a Lie
to me and Millions of other gun nuts,
it's the TRUTH!""
what Pisses me off is Cj took this offa the front page and it's only me and this Idiot goin' back and forth.
I feel that I wasted a GOOD BULLET!
Vent you wasted nothing just the sound of a bullet scarce 's these wimpy Lib shitless.
ReplyDeleteI'm jumping in there Vent.
ReplyDeleteLet's kick their little liberal asses...
Thanks i saw that Kev.
ReplyDeleteand If the Old copper is truly a registered republican,,,
then he's a prime example of what is wrong with the GOP
i also mentioned to those DIP SHITS that the comments are now over twenty and Maybe we should put this back on the Front page to open up the debate beyond three people !
after all this was a MAJOR NEWS EVENT! I see lotsa usless CRAP that can get bumped from the front page.
Sarge...
ReplyDelete1 Pet 3:15: But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,
Hi everyone I truly hope everyone enjoys this weekend, and God Bless all our Service people and families past and present.
Bob 444
You too Bob,,
ReplyDeleteand God forgive me for losing patience with these who allow and encourage Harm to our nation.