Tag: england

• “When In The Course of Human Events….”

  IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which…

  JunkChuck

  July 4, 2015

  Commentary

  1776, america, england, fourth of july, july 4, rebellion, revolution, taxation without representation, usa

• OVERLORD! The Day That Changed The World

  It can be argued that the Germans were already doomed; they just didn’t know it yet.  Morally bereft, overextended, overconfident, and reaping the seeds sown by poking the Russian bear to their north and east, the “Thousand-Year Reich” would not last a decade. For millions, it could not end soon enough.  Despite its losses in…

  JunkChuck

  June 6, 2014

  Commentary

  canada, channel, d-day, dday, england, france, germany, invasion, nazi, normandy, overlord, usa, war, wwII

• War Poems For National Poetry Month: Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est

  Panama…then Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Iraq again, Afganistan–right or wrong, for causes both just and cynical, we’ve been in an exhausting, nearly constant state of war, however distant and vaguely defined, since I graduated from High School in the 1980’s–and that was just a few deep breaths after the war in Viet Nam/ Cambodia/ Laos that…

  JunkChuck

  April 1, 2014

  Poetry

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