Author: TSO

I think this gravy train may be pulling into the last stop.

I just talked to LTC Nathan Banks!

Yup, today is the day when Matthis Chiroux and his travelling circus of freaks hits St. Louis, and LTC Nathan Banks stands ready to answer all our questions after 1PM today!

So, tune back later for some info on Matthis, instead of reading it on some lefty blog.

(And LTC Banks read TAH yesterday. Tee Hee!!!!)

The only thing better than LTC Nathan Banks is the  Conservative Coalition for American Values at Purdue University.

Got over to Ace and read the thread, trust me, if you are straight it is a must read.   (And by read, I mean look at the picture.)

Well, as a soldier formerly with the 116th, this one is a sad one.

When World War II broke out, the “Bedford Boys” left home to serve. Many of them didn’t come home _ so many that the community had among the greatest losses per capita on D-Day.

Now the last survivor has died.

Elisha Ray Nance died Sunday in Bedford, a spokesman at Tharp Funeral Home and Crematory said Monday. He was 94.

Nance was among 38 National Guardsmen from the close-knit community of Bedford who were in Company A of the 116th Infantry, a spokeswoman at the National D-Day Memorial Foundation said. On June 6, 1944, 19 were killed when they landed on Omaha Beach at the start of the D-Day invasion. Two more died later.
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Serving in the war meant more than a military engagement to the “Bedford Boys,” she said.

“This is personal. This is family,” Brooks said. “When their comrades fall, it’s not just some guy who was added to the unit three weeks ago.”

To honor his fallen brethren, Nance reorganized Company A of the Virginia National Guard in Bedford and was its first commander after World War II.

Ever forward Sir.

I’m sure that the 3-116th Sniper will have more on this later.

From a reader via email comes this picture of Sergeant First Class Lieutenant Colonel George James of the Medical Corp Infantry Branch. Can you spot the error in his uniform? (He’s all over the internet, so researching him now, but you just know his story will be phenomenal.)

He’s the Chapter President of the Rachel Corrie (think they have pancake breakfasts?) Chapter 109 in Olympia Washington. And I strongly suspect his entire story is fake, so let’s take him down folks.

OK, my buddy looked through the ribbons and this is what he has:

Left pocket, what is with the Master Sgt rank on the pocket?

Awards

Jnt SVC Commendation (?) ARCOM Good Conduct (wrong spot) (also not eligible to Lt. Col.)
AAM army reserve/ng achievement medal too washed out to tell
?? Overseas Service Rainbow Bright Badge (looks like there is a device on it)
National Defense Saudi Lib of Kuwait The only thing this looks like is the Kuwait Lib of Kuwait award upside down, but I don’t see the black.

Jonn added: Here, I blew it up a bit;

ADDED: Sporkmaster It seems that he is still at it.

A day late, but here it is. May the Sox win today to honor this day. (And my they win tomorrow, Thursday, next Tuesday and every other day.)

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.

The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.

On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set to-day a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

Spirit, that made those heroes dare,
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.

—Concord Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson

At 2 o’clock we began our march … at 5 o’clock we arrived [in Lexington], and saw a number of people, I believe between 200 and 300, formed in a common in the middle of town; we still continued advancing, keeping prepared against an attack through without intending to attack them; but on our coming near them they fired on us two shots, upon which our men without any orders, rushed upon them, fired and put them to flight; several of them were killed, we could not tell how many, because they were behind walls and into the woods. We had a man of the 10th light Infantry wounded, nobody else was hurt. We then formed on the Common, but with some difficulty, the men were so wild they could hear no orders; we waited a considerable time there, and at length proceeded our way to Concord.

We Nathaniel Mulliken, Philip Russell, [and 32 other men …] do testify and declare, that on the nineteenth in the morning, being informed that… a body of regulars were marching from Boston towards Concord. … About five o’clock in the morning, hearing our drum beat, we proceeded towards the parade, and soon found that a large body of troops were marching towards us, some of our company were coming to the parade, and others had reached it, at which time, the company began to disperse, whilst our backs were turned on the troops, we were fired on by them, and a number of our men were instantly killed and wounded, not a gun was fired by any person in our company on the regulars to our knowledge before they fired on us, and continued firing until we had all made our escape.

I, John Robbins, being of lawful age, do testify and say, that on the nineteenth instant, the Company under the command of Captain John Parker being drawn up (sometime before sunrise) on the green or common, and I being in the front rank, there suddenly appeared a number of the King’s Troops, about a thousand, as I thought, at the distance of about sixty or seventy yards from us, huzzaing and on a quick pace toward us, with three officers in their front on horseback, and on full gallop towards us; the foremost of which cried, ‘Throw down your arms, ye villains, ye rebels;’ upon which said Company dispersing, the foremost of the three officers ordered their men, saying ‘Fire, by God, fire;’ at which moment we received a very heavy and close fire from them; at which instant, being wounded, I fell, and several of our men were shot dead by one volley. Captain Parker’s men, I believe, had not then fired a gun.

Little known TSO fact: I was the Sports Editor for The Minuteman in 1990-1991. As the Sports Editor, I authored and/or edited exactly zero articles. But, I do appear in the editions as an editor.

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AMHERST, Mass., April 16, 2009—Multiple First Amendment violations have rocked the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus in recent days. UMass has done nothing about the videotaped theft of and, later, the student government’s official censorship of The Minuteman, a conservative campus newspaper that mocked a student government official. Worse, last night, when a student senator offered a bill to reverse the unconstitutional censorship of The Minuteman, the Senate’s speaker had the UMass police throw him out (video of this incident is expected soon). These assaults on free speech came in the wake of last month’s disgraceful episode in which a speech by columnist Don Feder was shouted down by hecklers while UMass police officers did nothing. The many aggrieved parties on this out-of-control campus have come to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help.

This stuff happened constantly when I was there. I’ll never forget our “Strait Pride Rally” where there were about 8 of us, and Morton Downey Jr, and about 30,000 of our favorite same sex couples yelling at us, throwing objects and then engaging in a “kiss-in.”

My chief job as Minuteman editor was to play the diagonally stripped country in the first Risk computer game. And we played for literally DAYS at a time.