tag:www.thedonovan.com,2012://1/tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12106- 2012-03-24T15:05:43Z 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 Movable Type 4.12 tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12106 2010-03-19T12:54:15Z 2010-03-19T18:36:29Z

The Armorer http://www.thedonovan.com USS Franklin -I would point out the USS Franklin Reunion is going on *right now* in Branson, Missouri.  If you're in the area, drop by and shake a hand or eight.  While you're there in the Chaos - there's a request to help a brother out.

I've been largely silent on Tom Hank's view of the (to him) amazing parallels of the War in the Pacific with the Global War er, Struggle, er, Grappling With, um, Stake Out, Current Operational Environment, and just how racist it all is, as he touts his new paean to the Racist Hate-mongers, er, heroes who lynched the Japanese, um, fought the Japanese.  Lots of other people are piling on that example of "present-ism" in historical analysis.  It's a disease historians, especially amateur celebrity historians, are prey to.  I'll let Jules Crittenden stand in for me there.  I'm not watching the show, as I've read the books already and I have other things to do with my time.  That's not a knock on the show (hey, I said I haven't seen it) that's just a statement of priorities.]]> tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12106-comment:100333 Saker ]]> 2010-03-20T14:08:51Z 2010-03-20T14:08:51Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12106-comment:100331 BillT http://www.thedonovan.com
Although "We Were Soldiers Once" was an emerald...
]]> 2010-03-20T07:21:31Z 2010-03-20T07:21:31Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12106-comment:100330 jsallison The japs fought a dirty fight and reaped the whirlwind. I don't particularly give a flying .... what a trivial jerk like Hanks thinks about it. 2010-03-19T23:58:21Z 2010-03-19T23:58:21Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12106-comment:100325 Maggie http://bostonmaggie.blogspot.com
You're welcome.]]> 2010-03-19T19:40:05Z 2010-03-19T19:40:05Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12106-comment:100323 USMC Steve
]]> 2010-03-19T18:13:27Z 2010-03-19T18:13:27Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12106-comment:100321 baroness Ophelia Kensington-Gore Disclaimer: I haven't seen the show. ]]> 2010-03-19T17:59:22Z 2010-03-19T17:59:22Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12106-comment:100319 John of Argghhh! http://www.thedonovan.com
I just don't wish to be a slave to the time slot nor set the DVR.

If you've not done a lot of reading on the war in the pacific, it should be informative.]]> 2010-03-19T15:28:30Z 2010-03-19T15:28:30Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12106-comment:100317 Maggie http://bostonmaggie.blogspot.com/ 2010-03-19T15:18:13Z 2010-03-19T15:18:13Z tag:www.thedonovan.com,2010://1.12106-comment:100314 BloodSpite http://www.registeredevil.com
A Gentlemen I had the pleasure of meeting many years ago, Thomas G. Gallant wrote them, and at the time (he may still be) he was a journalist out of Chatanooga, TN. The books were of his experiences at Guadalcanal and at Iwo Jima.

On Valors Side and Friendly Dead.

I thought them very well written, and well presented, for those curious of such things
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