I Heard the Bells

Welcome back to the Scuttlebutt.  Here, have some Eggnog, if that’s not to your liking there’s Hot Buttered Rum in the thermos, Atholl brose in the big jug to the left, Tom and Jerry in the jug to the right, and fresh hot nonalcoholic apple cider in the big jug on the end.  If none …

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Dec. 7, 1941

It is worth remembering. Somewhere in your family history I am sure is someone who was impacted by this date. Perhaps, like my great-uncle, they were already enlisted and ended up some place they never heard of. Maybe they enlisted short afterwards. Maybe they tried but were declared in-eligible. Maybe one of the women in …

3d U.S. Infantry Regiment – Rambler

I saw a post from the 3rd U.S. Infantry (AKA the Old Guard) cross my feed the other day announcing the loss of an 11 year veteran of the Caisson Platoon. Rambler - photo from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) facebook post From the post: Our military working horses serve a key …

A Jewish Perspective on Arlington’s Confederate Memorial — Bacon’s Rebellion

Photo credit: Cliff at flickr The Advisory Committee on Arlington National Cemetery has recommended the removal of the 32-foot-tall memorial to Confederate veterans buried there on the grounds that it is “riddled with racist iconography” and perpetuates the Lost Cause narrative. The following letter was sent today to the Committee. — JAB On March 19, …

Google CAUGHT Burying GOP Campaign Sites — Dixie Drudge – Southern Nation News

Support Free Southern Media: Like, Share, Re-Tweet, Re-Post, Subscribe. Google CAUGHT Manipulating Search, Buries GOP Campaign Sites in 83% of Top Senate Races (NOQ Report) Anti-Democracy Google is manipulating search results to bury Senate Republican candidates’ campaign websites before the 2022 midterm elections. This comes on the heels of a North Carolina State University study …

Statues, Vengeance, and Ritual Humiliation — Bacon’s Rebellion

by James A. Bacon The movement to expunge Confederate statues from the public realm has reached a tipping point. It started with the proposition that many people, Blacks especially, found sculptures honoring the defenders of a slave nation to be offensive, regardless of the meaning the memorials conveyed to others. But the rhetoric has transmogrified …

Vale Neo

A on-line friend lost a precious baby 2 days after they had found her on the street. ================ One Last Recuse. She drew a deep breath and sat up, pausing to take a long stretch.  She felt much better after her nap.  Halfway through the stretch she stopped and looked around.  This was not where …

SouthernNation.Org: Why Know Southern History?

Why Know Southern History? “Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant …

I Remember 9/11

I remember all too well: Thinking the person who said to turn on the TV was playing a sick joke – he had that kind of humor. Seeing that second plane hit the building. Bodies falling. Watching the towers come down. Walking around in a numb haze. Trying to get hold of my sister in …

“That Day”

In every generation there is *that day*. A day which will remain in our memories until we die. For my grand parents it was Sunday Dec. 7th. 1941. The day American was shaken out of her complacency and dragged into WWII when the Empire of Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. America changed that day. We recovered …