Thus Spake Russ

Russ Emerson | December 7, 2005

Today is Pearl Harbor Day. This is the battleship U.S.S. Arizona in the 1930s: And this is the U.S.S. Arizona and 1177 of her crew today: It would behoove our enemies — actual and potential — to realize that when the United States went to war after an unprovoked attack in 1941, it ended in […]

Category: History | 5 Comments »
Tags:

Russ Emerson | October 25, 2005

Greatest speech ever. WESTMORELAND O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day! KING HENRY V What’s he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin: If we are mark’d to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if […]

Category: History | 2 Comments »
Tags: