Today in History

[Lady Cop]

48 years ago today. where were you?

[Eat Shit And Die]

I was minus 20 so i guess i wasnt much.

[ramseycat]

I was minus 20 so i guess i wasnt much.

You were a sparkle in your father's eye. LOL

[Duchess]

48 years ago today. where were you?

Back when dinosaurs walked the earth. Dick will be able to tell you where he was & what he was doing.

[Eat Shit And Die]

I was minus 20 so i guess i wasnt much.

You were a sparkle in your father's eye. LOL

I dont have a father or a mother, i was created out of humanities disgust and disdain for one another i am the paragon of dispair.

[Lady Cop]

i was a kid, it was a freezing cold very windy day in my hometown, the wind was whipping me i remember. the White House was draped in black. i could barely believe what was happening. i kept thinking about Abe Lincoln because i had visited Ford's Theater. and the house where he died. i knew it was living history and was still in shock like many.

[ramseycat]

Well ESAD, I...um... wow... gee.. that's too bad.

[Eat Shit And Die]

Too bad for some, i roll with it.

[Cracker]

I dont have a father or a mother, i was created out of humanities disgust and disdain for one another i am the paragon of dispair.

Cracker likes you. But then, I like dive bars and food off the Mexican taco trucks...

I wasn't around for the big conspiracy. I do think he would re-think the equality thing now that it hasn't worked out so well. You can give people freedom and equality, but you can't force them to earn it or deserve it.

[Duchess]

Too bad for some, i roll with it.

I refuse to feel bad for someone who wears Burberry.

[Eat Shit And Die]

I dont have a father or a mother, i was created out of humanities disgust and disdain for one another i am the paragon of dispair.

Cracker likes you. But then, I like dive bars and food off the Mexican taco trucks...

ESAD loves you becoz you like him despite his short commings and talking of himself in 3^rd person.

Too bad for some, i roll with it.

I refuse to feel bad for someone who wears Burberry.

How about you just feel me?

[Maggot]

Dammit! Franklin Pierces birthday was yesterday! I wore the wrong stupid shoes! And on top of that no sparkly socks. WTF was I thinking.

[Lady Cop]

Nov. 26 in history~

on This Day

FDR establishes modern Thanksgiving holiday, 1941


Automotive
First U.S. "cloverleaf" appears on the cover of the Engineering News-Record, 1931
Civil War
Mine Run campaign begins in Virginia, 1863
Cold War
Chinese counterattacks in Korea change nature of war, 1950
Crime
Vigilantes in California lynch two suspected murderers, 1933
Disaster
Winter storm paralyzes southern New England, 1898
General Interest
Archaeologists enter tomb of King Tut, 1922
Hollywood
Casablanca premieres in NYC, 1942
Literary
Alice in Wonderland manuscript is sent as a Christmas present, 1862
Old West
The Great Diamond Hoax is exposed, 1872
Presidential
George W. Bush pardons a turkey, 2002
Vietnam War
Air Force helicopter pilot rescues Special Forces team, 1968
World War I
T.E. Lawrence reports on Arab affairs, 1916
World War II
Japanese task force leaves for Pearl Harbor, 1941

[QueenBee]

I was 9 years old..in 4^th grade at Jackson School. We were watching a science film about flowers or some lame thing like that, when principal came in and turned on the TV in the auditorium. Then he announced later that school was closing because JFK had died and we were all sent home. A lasting image is passing by the classroom of another teacher and she was just standing by her desk crying.

[SIXFOOTERsez]

I was playing in the front yard when the fat chick from next door came running over hollering about "They Shot President Kennedy". This was Dallas Texas, about 5 miles from the school book deposiotory

[Lady Cop]

12/7/2011

today is the 70^th anniversary of the japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.














Life Photos of attack here:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,...&hpt=hp_c3

[Midwest Spy]

I've been to Pearl Harbor, in 2005. Took the tour, met a Pearl Harbor survivor, rode the boat to the white memorial. It is true that fuel is still leaking and is visible on the surface of the water.

I'm going again to Honolulu in January and I'll take my 4 year old to Pearl. He actually is fascinated by WWII aircraft, and I know he's looking forward to seeing where the 'Arizona' now rests.

Will he understand the significance? Doubt it. But he wants to go, and maybe he'll 'get' more than I realize.

[Lady Cop]

Pearl survivors on this day. the greatest generation.

[Duchess]

Poignant photos.

[Lady Cop]

the Battle of the Bulge, 67 years ago.

i had to do a report on this decisive battle while in high school. i wish i had these photos then.

Breathtaking new photographs, including several vivid full-color images, offer a never-before-seen look at the war-weary soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge who fought through the frozen Ardennes Forest in a mountainous region of Belgium in the dead of winter.

They show soldiers on both sides battling the frigid weather as they fought each other during Nazi Germany's last-ditch effort to drive back Allied forces between December 1944 and January 1945.

The pictures were released by Life Magazine on the 67^th anniversary of the start of the grueling battle.At the end of the of the 41-day offensive, 19,000 American soldiers were dead. The British Army lost 1,400 lives. Total allied casualties are estimated at 110,000 - making it the bloodiest battle for American troops in all of World War II.

Under-manned and not prepared to camp out in temperatures that dropped to four degrees below zero Fahrenheit, American forces held out against German tanks and troops until reinforcements, including General George S. Patton's Third Army.









1945 Belgium



15-year-old German soldier



nazi POWs