and 'em boys flung themselves at that Devil’s Den,
blood 'n guts, fear, no glory, mini-balled sans zen.
“Shall we send the boys for another run at the canister rounds, General?”
(some battles you get to Pickett and still not choose)
Oh, I’m afraid those fine, brave people exhausted their Bayer 600mg supplies long, long ago, on a board far, oh so far away.
OH! And another thing! I’m not an “@”! I’m an “almost there.”
Enjoy the snow. And don’t be too mad at Ole Hickory (He was an absolute SOB), nor Johnny Horton. It was just Jimmy Driftwood’s history lesson gone melodically astray.
Yea, I’m with @mjac, what did you mean?
I get that you’re referring to General Patton in the first, and made a couple of Gettysburg references in the second, but if there’s a point beyond that, I missed it.
Edit: I wasn’t intending to sound angry.
As was demonstrated by the disparate group that defeated the English at the Battle of New Orleans including the 93 Regiment Scottish Highlanders, there ate indeed those of brave heart capable of becoming the official @canoeswithduckheads interpreter. In order to interpret you must know where to interpret @. Indeed Andrew Jackson was an SOB by today’s standards, but that not being today, he also won the Battle of New Orleans basically saving the nation. His other miscarriages can be debated, but that still stands and it depends if you can accept In light of that. Willie Horton appears to be the Michael Bolton of his era….Waxing Poetic.
You ain’t the only one, Why was it addressed to you, what did you do?…Perhaps there is a logical explanation.
Yes, but the Americans did win. I believe the War of 1812 is one of those unfortunste events intended as a punituve action andca thorn in the new nations side. What could the fledgling nation do? They found out.
You’re observation is credible evidence that this nation benefitted from devine provenance, despite much wrongdoing.
For all of our faults, there is one constant - we tend to be introspective. Our destructive course is often skewed toward self-healing, if only we would allow it flourish.
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I don’t understand enough to know even if I “did” something. I don’t know if @canoewithduckheads was agreeing, disagreeing or trying to make some correction.
Join the club.
The circumstances just surrounding the Battle of New Orleans are fascinating, let alone the entire formation and sustaining of the nation. Jean Lafitte being available, capable and willing to assist the Americans even after his enclave was assaulted and destroyed by the American Navy, a hurticane delaying the British assault on New Orleans for a year, the British misjudging the current of the Mississippi River and having their flanking, behind the lines assault force landing BELOW the battle.
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Merely observations.
To the first, in a somewhat whimsical response to your comment regarding visiting “old” battlefields, my mind (often wandering) recalled the scene from the movie Patton where the general redirects his jeep and driver and Omar Bradley from viewing an American/English failure against the Afrika Corps to a more ancient battlefield, whereon the Romans did battle with the Carthaginians. I believe Patton, perhaps a believer in reincarnation, states in the movie, “I was here, Brad.”
To the second, you are correct, I allude to the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. My response is but an echo in poor poetics, perhaps, to your comment about the little guys, or is it the forgotten warriors, that bare the brunt, the burden, for humanities mosh-pit of politics and history as it hatches us our text book heroes.
That’s all. No slight. No insult. Just a little grey infusion to bend at all these sharp, erudite nails driven to the board. Being almost there, I suppose I obfuscate all too often.
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I knew that.
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See, nobody has to interpret eloquence.
CWDH uses poetry and various cultural symbols to allude to the meaning being expressed. They are often observations with humor on the thread or recent posts to the thread. I usually get to some degree his meaning, but not all of it. It depends partly on how widely versed you are with the material he draws from. I like that you have to work for it.
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But when CWDH isn’t providing comic relief, he manages to hit it out of the park.
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There is a point where things are too nebulous.
Some things are more about rhythm and the feel than the clarity. The ambiguity can lead one to think more deeply about the possibilities. Subjective often comes to play whenever we evaluate the objective.
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Just a heads up, but a favorite podcast of mine is “Tides of History” by Patrick Wyman.
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
38 plays. 154 sonnets. In class reading Shakespeare dumb I still sit.
A Texas-leaguer in the Houston snow,
I duck under eagle nebula understanding nothing I know.
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