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Posted in Editorial, Uncategorized on Nov 27th, 2008
My husband’s grandfather, Pop, used to shoot a wild turkey every year for Thanksgiving, until he got too old to hunt.
The difference between putting a golden, succulent Butterball on the table, and putting a wild turkey on the table, is the difference between driving to the grocery store, or lying in wait, patient [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 24th, 2008
I have shown you all kinds of flag videos on The Daily Flag, but Red Flag is not the usual.
Please fasten your seat belt, and block out 48:29 minutes from your day.
Hat Tip to Exile in Portales, via Steeljaw Scribe.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 16th, 2008
Ok. Not really playing hooky, nor larking about.
I need to rest my eyes, because I have stared at the computer screen for too long.
So I’m going to lie in bed with a ice pack over my eyes, and listen to jazz on the radio.
Posted in History, Information, Uncategorized on Oct 15th, 2008
I’ve been prowling around in the National Archives again, looking for interesting photographs that show the Stars and Stripes, and state flags, too. Found this one-of-a-kind photo taken in 1945.
How many of these U.S. Army Generals do you recognize? How many can you name?
The men are identified after the break below the photo.
Posted in History, Information, Uncategorized on Aug 18th, 2008
This day I completed my thirty first year, and conceived that I had in all human probability now existed about half the period which I am to remain in the Sublunary world.
I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little, indeed, to further the happiness of the human race, or to [...]
Posted in History, Information, Uncategorized on Aug 14th, 2008
The American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars are the two largest and most high-profile veteran service organizations (VSO) in the country, but there are many more. This link will take you to the page at the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs. This is a screen capture image from the VA website, to give [...]
Posted in Flags in the News, History, Information, Uncategorized on Aug 13th, 2008
Flying the flag, just not the right one
August 14, 2008
THIS is all I’m doing at the moment: watching the Olympics, eating cruddy food, and getting riled up with full-on patriotic Aussie-love. Any time I see an Aussie athlete competing in something, I feel pride burning in my heart - well, part pride, part [...]
Posted in Editorial, History, Information, Uncategorized on Jul 28th, 2008
Don Adair’s childhood visit to movie set of The Alamo was the experience of a lifetime, and left him with a deep and abiding affection for the Alamo and Texas history. Forty-three years later, a second movie about the Alamo was made in Texas, and Don and his twin brother Ron made the trip again. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2008
I’m taking the day off. Not for larking about, but to rest my eyes. I’ve been suffering from terrible eye strain for about ten days. I avoided the computer over the weekend, but it wasn’t enough. So I am going to slack off for today, and maybe tomorrow, too.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15th, 2008
Do you ever have one of those days? You know the kind—when a pre-dawn thunderstorm (um—at 4:15 in the pre-dawn), rattles the house and all your lovely electronic things: computers, printer, and those blinking black boxes that make them all play nice. A second wave of the same weather front passed through a few hours [...]
