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/2010/01/from_iron_will.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:08:22 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Before it is too late, let us learn from the devolution in the moral fibre of others... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/from_iron_will.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/from_iron_will.html Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:36:06 -0600 I thought you might not care for that usage, Argent, but chose to let you weigh in on your own. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/from_iron_will.html#comment-97583 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/from_iron_will.html#comment-97583 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:44:27 -0600
As for pooftery.  I am not happy about that word use at all.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/from_iron_will.html#comment-97581 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/from_iron_will.html#comment-97581 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:10:50 -0600 Flag Gazer - if by destroying Japanese culture you mean defeating them in '45 and setting them free to chart their own path (after the era of MacArthur as Consul), then I agree. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/from_iron_will.html#comment-97425 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/from_iron_will.html#comment-97425 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:34:45 -0600 I didn't think Japan was allowed to fly the 'Rising Sun' battleflag anymore.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/from_iron_will.html#comment-97418 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/from_iron_will.html#comment-97418 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:44:22 -0600
My grandfather was one of those steel men - they left in the early seventies when he called it the land of the regulatory dictators.

We have helped to destroy the Japanese culture, just as we have our own.
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{/snerk}

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Nob Hill, Coit Tower, Golden Gate park and the Presidio of San Francisco.  I got stitches at Letterman Army Hospital.  We had family that lived in CA, now they have all left.  I left when the Engineer went back into the Army; my family has fled over the past 21 years. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/from_iron_will.html#comment-97409 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/from_iron_will.html#comment-97409 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:53:23 -0600 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/from_iron_will.html#comment-97408 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/from_iron_will.html#comment-97408 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:44:03 -0600
Chinatown, Fort Point, the Golden Gate bridge and watching 'Dirty Harry' movies being filmed there...(Magnum Force and The Enforcer).  The War Memorial Opera House (saw many ballets and heard/saw more than a few operas there), and the Maritime Museum at North Polk Street, the Wharf, Ghirardelli Square...Sigh.

I am homesick for a California that no longer exists.

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/from_iron_will.html#comment-97404 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/01/from_iron_will.html#comment-97404 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:37:52 -0600 Meh, it's cultural.  I kept expecting to see the Japanese sailors in the 2nd video turn into Mighty Morphin Power Sailors or something, while their ships transformed into giant, stompy robots.

Said robots and MMPS could then be joined in their dance number by the Village People from San Fran.

Now, back to mainly things, like chawin' terbaccy, scratchin' mah johnson, belchin' last nights brewskies and rudely propositioning ladies....


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-- ummmmmmmm --

-- waitaminnit --

That didn't come out right, did it?
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