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/2004/12/the_perils_of_transformation.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:05:25 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Black Watch Comrades Print A Dying Soldier of the Black Watch is supported by his comrade, while another stands to protect them, as the ranks of the Highlanders march on, after the battles at Sebastopol during the Crimean war. CAPT H, keeping an eye on the Anglosphere for me. He's a one man intel section, reading the Brit papers and providing intel summaries for me. More of you should do that - especially an Aussie and someone in India. As I've noted before... still taking applications for a spy in the Naval establishment to further expand our Jointness, though... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/the_perils_of_transformation.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/the_perils_of_transformation.html Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:39:40 -0600 John - this touches on something you have discussed eloquently before - that "patch of cloth" for which men fight and die in order to uphold its honor. Mess with that at your peril. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/the_perils_of_transformation.html#comment-10513 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/the_perils_of_transformation.html#comment-10513 Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:53:16 -0600 Based on what I observed in Edinburgh last Fall, during the "red poppy drive" for veteran's services, this will go down hard. An interesting side note, I was walking down the main street of Edinburgh during this visit and spotted a man selling poppies uniformed in USMC garb. This man was shivering because it was quite cold and he was in his summer uniform. I approached and asked him if he was indeed a U.S. Marine. He responded in the affirmative. I asked him why he was selling poppies for the U.K. military. He said his parents had moved to Scotland, he was on leave visiting them and wanted to do his part... That Marine got a five pound note from me for one of his paper poppies. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/the_perils_of_transformation.html#comment-10512 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/12/the_perils_of_transformation.html#comment-10512 Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:08:12 -0600