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 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/this_ones_for_y.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:57:43 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification These are the colors that fly from the Castle staffs this day. On the 21st of July beneath a burning sun, McDowell met the Southern troops in battle at Bull Run. Above the Union vanguard was proudly dancing seen, Beside the starry banner, old Erin's flag of green! Colonel Corcoran led the 69th on that eventful day. I wish the Prince of Wales were there to see him in the fray! His charge upon the batteries was a most glorious scene. With gallant New York firemen and the boys that wear the green In the hottest of the fire there... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/this_ones_for_y.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/this_ones_for_y.html Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:47:53 -0600 I wonder how many people noticed the US flag is the 34-star flag? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/this_ones_for_y.html#comment-62492 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/this_ones_for_y.html#comment-62492 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:29:28 -0600 Jim, we're cousins, with an intra-family fight. Now, the Saxons... And, yes, we were both badly used by the Saxons, playing us off against each other. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/this_ones_for_y.html#comment-62420 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/this_ones_for_y.html#comment-62420 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:05:42 -0600 Thanks, John love the flag. Fantastic. Justthisguy -- Scots-Irish aren't Irish. They are colonists brought in by the English as part of one of their historic jokes. Irish Irish were overwhelmingly in the North. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/this_ones_for_y.html#comment-62419 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/this_ones_for_y.html#comment-62419 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:49:50 -0600 Hey! Just a minute,now! We had valiant Irishmen on *our* side, too! Ours had been here longer, had a stake in the polity, weren't recently-arrived deluded mercenary cannon-fodder! Pppffbbt! (Yes the guys of whom you write were valiant; that goes without saying, and goes far to explain why The War was so bloody. We Celts are good at teh fightin.) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/this_ones_for_y.html#comment-62418 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/07/this_ones_for_y.html#comment-62418 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:27:52 -0600