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/2005/11/on_giving_thanks.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:58:37 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ...each day, not just on Thanksgiving. Celebrate quietly, thoughtfully. It needn't take long and requires no lengthy preparation. Give thanks that we live in a country with people like these: SangerM, whose comment on Americans a couple of posts down was too good not to give wider exposure... That we are so rich in every imaginable way, and that we can travel around the world in fantastic machines of our own making and deliver food and other aid to people on mountains and in valleys, and everywhere, and that we can do it again, and again, and again... That we... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/11/on_giving_thanks.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/11/on_giving_thanks.html Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:00:59 -0600 Thanks Chief. I meant it, too. I look around every day and give thanks for what I see and have. . . Who couldn't. V/R http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/11/on_giving_thanks.html#comment-35255 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/11/on_giving_thanks.html#comment-35255 Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:21:53 -0600 Reuben James?" Read this, and all will be clear. The Reuben James sails on today, too. Never let it be said that at the Castle we aren't hip-deep in trivia! ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/11/on_giving_thanks.html#comment-35248 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/11/on_giving_thanks.html#comment-35248 Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:27:37 -0600 Chief, I am so sorry. My apologies for not laying any background to the post. _Reuben James_ has been a part of me for so long, I didn't realize, until I read your email, that it could be understood as other than a lamentation for and an honoring of LT Zilinski and all the others. We have no choice but to fight this fight; in 50 years this will be called a “good war”. I have two teenagers, 16 and 14. As far as I’m concerned, LT Zilinski was trying to ensure that my boys won’t have to fight it on the Canadian border. The elder wants to drive a tank; the younger thinks he has a calling to be a sniper. We shall see. Mike Mariani SFC USA (Ret'd) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/11/on_giving_thanks.html#comment-35246 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/11/on_giving_thanks.html#comment-35246 Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:01:41 -0600 Now tonight there are lights in our country so bright. In the farms and in the cities, they are telling of the fight. And now our mighty battleships will steam the bounding main And remember the name of that good Reuben James. The best of men fight, too. When the worst of men force us, it's necessary... But the meaning of your sentiment is understood and appreciated. Thank you. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/11/on_giving_thanks.html#comment-35242 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/11/on_giving_thanks.html#comment-35242 Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:05:18 -0600 " ... and still I wonder why The worst of men must fight, And the best of men must die." http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/11/on_giving_thanks.html#comment-35241 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/11/on_giving_thanks.html#comment-35241 Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:33:09 -0600 Dennis was one of about 6 cadets who loved the shore. They would crash in my basement and drink my beer. It saved them a few bucks. And you will never have more polite company! Two more of the group are on their way over. I fervently pray they come home unscathed. God Bless all our troops and return them, sound, to their loved ones. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/11/on_giving_thanks.html#comment-35228 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/11/on_giving_thanks.html#comment-35228 Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:52:02 -0600