Tag Archives: Veterans
Antique Postcards ~ Fatherless Children of France, World War One
This card is dated 1918, and World War 1 had created approximately 3 million widows and 10 million orphans. Europe was in ruins, but the United States homeland remained completely unaffected, with a booming economy and the good times of … Continue reading
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After The Wars
And a great John Prine classic-
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The Largest Robbery …..IN HISTORY!
Ok, here’s the short version for all us slow readers (Kansans): After George HW, Cheney, Rummy and the gang declared MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, they had some plane-loads of money sent over to Iraq. Some 12 BILLION dollars sent there in fact. … Continue reading
Vonnegut’s Blues for America – by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Editor’s note: This was written during Geroge W. Bush’s Presidency (2006). We will never know what Kurt would have written about our current administration, or especially the global depression caused by the greed and selfishness of America’s ‘ruling class’. Sadly, … Continue reading
First Kansas Colored Infantry
We all know the story of where the Civil War supposedly started right? Well maybe we should take into account the border wars between Missouri and Kansas prior to the 1861 statehood of Kansas. Pro and anti-slavery forces clashed regularly … Continue reading
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The Osage In The Neosho Valley, pre-Civil War
When the European explorers first encountered the Osage Indians (Wa-Zha-Zhe), in the mid 1600′s the Osage were the most powerful nation in North America, and had been so for centuries. In an 1808 treaty, the Osage ceded most of their … Continue reading
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A Pittance Of Time on Veteran’s Day
SOMETIMES, people say “everything happens for a reason”. I say Bollocks!. This week, at Ft. Hood Texas, brave soldiers died FOR NO GOOD REASON. I hope that those surrounding those soldier’s friends and families have the good sense to NOT … Continue reading
AD ASTRA PER ASPERA a poem by Ironquill
A motto appears On the seal of a State — Of a State that was born While the terror was brewing; A motto defying The edicts of fate; A motto of daring, A legend of doing. A perilous past And … Continue reading
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Military Industrial War Machine
America is today the strongest, the most influential and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America’s leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, … Continue reading
