Captain Weir

[quincannon]

If you are embarrassed. Stick the damned things in your dresser drawer where I have mine. Your kids will find them some day and have good thoughts. Medals are not for us, they are for them. That's why we did whatever we did, for them and those who follow them, not for ourselves.

[miker]

All my decorations are in my dresser drawer. I am not nearly as embarrassed as I used to be.

[quincannon]

Mike the only thing I earned in the Army that has an everlasting value to me is my Infantry Blue "Rope". We were formally presented with them at Benning when you finished BUT (Basic Unit Training), training that followed basic and AIT (Advanced Infantry Training). Not done that way anymore. Anyway I wore that rope whenever I wore Class A's or Khaki's. In the Basic Officer Course I wore it to an affair that required A's and my tac officer, a snotty 1LT SOB named Seltzer started chewing me up one side and down the other for wearing that rope when I was yet to graduate from the course. My response was --- Listen sonny, I earned and was presented that rope when you were still in high school, check my records and shut up. I guess it's true, that rank among Lieutenants is like virginity in a whore house, because I never heard a word about either my insubordination or the rope ever again.

[quincannon]

Quote of Interest:

"I swore at the Point to honor and protect the flag of my country, and there weren't any if's, ands, or buts in that oath. So long as I have a breath to draw, I stand by that oath. that's nothing to cheer about. It's only what I expect of myself and what you, my fellow citizens, have got a right to expect from me"

Major Robert Anderson, 3rd Artillery, USA, spoken in New York City in April 1861.

[herosrest]

Mar 16, 2023 1:49:37 GMT quincannon said:

Mike the only thing I earned in the Army that has an everlasting value to me is my Infantry Blue "Rope". We were formally presented with them at Benning when you finished BUT (Basic Unit Training), training that followed basic and AIT (Advanced Infantry Training). Not done that way anymore. Anyway I wore that rope whenever I wore Class A's or Khaki's. In the Basic Officer Course I wore it to an affair that required A's and my tac officer, a snotty 1LT SOB named Seltzer started chewing me up one side and down the other for wearing that rope when I was yet to graduate from the course. My response was --- Listen sonny, I earned and was presented that rope when you were still in high school, check my records and shut up. I guess it's true, that rank among Lieutenants is like virginity in a whore house, because I never heard a word about either my insubordination or the rope ever again.

 Damn............. I just lost a mouthful of coffee.............. Stop it!

[quincannon]

Stop drinking coffee then HR. It's bad for your dry cleaning bill, spilling so much over your nicely pressed trousers.

No corned beef and cabbage tonight. For 35 years I tried to convince Joan that you do not have to eat like a peasant to celebrate a Saint's feast day. Did not do one bit of good. I did have a nice New York Strip though, and I'm sure Saint Pat does not give a rat's ass

[yanmacca]

link

[quincannon]

I take it that he does not like corned beef and cabbage either. "Take it" because I could not understand a goddamned thing he said, but that's probably a good thing.

Of course, I listened to five hours of Wagner's Lohengrin this afternoon, and I did not understand one goddamned word they were singing either. Ain't culture wonderful?

[yanmacca]

Knowing the Irish like I do, he is more likely to be eating boiled ham with cabbage and champ.
His preferred choice of music would be the "Dubliners".

[Elwood]

Mar 19, 2023 9:44:41 GMT yanmacca said:

Knowing the Irish like I do, he is more likely to be eating boiled ham with cabbage and champ.
His preferred choice of music would be the "Dubliners".

Ah the Dubliners. Come to the Bower. Love that tune.

[quincannon]

A tune best played by two young lads on fife and drum, marching uphill behind the Twin Sisters

[quincannon]

Probably passed over the heads of all but you and Colt Mister E, but if you're from Texas that's different.

She was a picture in old Spanish Lace remember.

[Elwood]

Yes, two different tunes but . . . Re: Battle of San Jacinto one, revisionists have written that Will you Come to the Bower was not played at the Battle. My response is, were you there? The story of the song being played as the Texans advanced is so simple and common sense infused that it has to be true. Correct?

Townes Van Zant did a good rendition of the battle tune.

[quincannon]

Revisionist "historians" might say that Santa Anna lured Sam into a trap and actually won the battle but that does not make it so.

Neither you, I, or that half baked shithead that made those statements were not there so none of us have direct knowledge.

If you say "Come To The Bower" was played during Houston's attack at San Jacinto, and history and tradition confirms it, then yes, it is correct.

Now if I could only get a date with Emily Morgan. Yellow Roses my boy are one of the things that make our world a brighter place.

[miker]

Yellow roses are the only kind I give my wife. They go well with the yellow ribbon and the yellow garter I placed 3 fingers above the petite k we cap when I introduced her to the squadron after our marriage and proclaimed a Border Belle. The penalty for not wearing the garter was to be kissed by the junior subaltern present, regardless of the husband's rank at hails and farewells.