Comments for Today's Medal of Honor Moment for 31 October 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/2009/10/todays_medal_of_67.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:11:35 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Today's Medal of Honor Moment for 31 October http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/todays_medal_of_67.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/todays_medal_of_67.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:12:55 -0600 Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-11-02 this is the ship Derek was asking about, LaMigra.  An earlier one.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/todays_medal_of_67.html#comment-94971 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/todays_medal_of_67.html#comment-94971 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:06:26 -0600 Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-11-02 why Derek was asking me the question.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/todays_medal_of_67.html#comment-94970 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/todays_medal_of_67.html#comment-94970 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:04:28 -0600 Comment from LaMigra on 2009-11-02 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_Rodgers_(DD-983)]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/todays_medal_of_67.html#comment-94968 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/todays_medal_of_67.html#comment-94968 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:49:54 -0600 Comment from derek mares on 2009-11-01
i have just been wondering for some time what is going on with the USS JOHN RODGERS ? i dont see any new reports after Jan 2 2007 ... dont know if you can answer this but thought i would at least try .. thanks DEREK]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/todays_medal_of_67.html#comment-94963 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/todays_medal_of_67.html#comment-94963 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:57:07 -0600 Comment from wolfwalker on 2009-11-01 Wooden Ships and Iron Men -- with that on the cover, how could the book be anything less than excellent?

More relevantly, I like these posts a lot, Armorer.  Look forward to 'em every day.  It was an excellent idea, and I hope you keep it up until you've rounded the calendar. 

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/todays_medal_of_67.html#comment-94960 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/todays_medal_of_67.html#comment-94960 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:03:14 -0600 Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-11-01
Feh.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/todays_medal_of_67.html#comment-94958 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/todays_medal_of_67.html#comment-94958 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:48:32 -0600 Comment from Cortillaen on 2009-11-01 DAILY, CHARLES

Rank and organization: Private, Company B, 8th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: Arizona, August to October 1868. Entered service at:------. Birth: Ireland. Date of issue: 24 July 1869. Citation: Bravery in scouts and actlons agamst Indians. [emp. mine] Interesting typos, and a similar one ('m' instead of "in") shows up in the citations for John Hall and Andrew Weaher.  Were these citations originally scanned into digital format through OCR software? ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/todays_medal_of_67.html#comment-94956 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/10/todays_medal_of_67.html#comment-94956 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:24:00 -0600