We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/its_not_veterans_day.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:06:04 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification But I'm writing like it is, as I prepare to head off to the in-brief. On this day in 1415, King Henry V whacked the flower of french nobility at Agincourt, giving Shakespeare inspiration to write some oratory that has since floated over many a gathering of old soldiers remembering hard times: Westmoreland: O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work today! King: What's he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland? No my fair cousin. If we are marked to die, we are enow To do our country loss;... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/its_not_veterans_day.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/its_not_veterans_day.html Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:25:36 -0600 despite having all the advantages. Odd how this one battle encapsulates the tendencies of both nations...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/its_not_veterans_day.html#comment-7964 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/its_not_veterans_day.html#comment-7964 Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:57:02 -0600