Comments by "Colonel K" (@Paladin1873) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1. Lest We Forget... They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. (Laurence Binyon 1869 - 1943)
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  2. She was the embodiment of the French spirit.
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  3. If a right is granted, it isn't really a right; it is a privilege that can be revoked on a whim.
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  4.  @mikecurtin9831  Your comment does not correspond with anything I posted. I'm talking about what a tragedy it would be to erase the past.
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  5. These accounts remind me of the the book "The Long Winter" wherein Laura Ingalls described how Pa got lost in a South Dakota blizzard and managed to survive by sitting it out ensconced in a heavy buffalo robe. When morning came he discovered he was within sight of his farmhouse.
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  6. As you have shown, the history of African slavery is not a simple black and white story (no pun intended).
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  7. "Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air. "Up, up the long delirious burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, where never lark, or even eagle, flew; and, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of God." This sonnet is the official poem of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force. It was written by John Gillespie Magee, Jr., an American volunteer pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War, who served in a Spitfire squadron until he was killed on 11 December 1941 after he bailed out too low following a collision with another aircraft near Ruskington, Lincolnshire county, England. He was 19 years old. What a loss to the literary world.
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  8. I would like to correct a popular misconception at the beginning of this video. John Chivington was never a US Army Colonel. He served in the U.S. Volunteers (USV), a sort of forerunner of the National Guard. As with state militia forces, the USV augmented the Regular Army in times of war but was separate from it. No Regular Army unit participated in the Sand Creek Massacre, nor did all of the USV forces join in. Captain Silas Soule refused to obey Chivington's orders, and he stood down his company, but they watched the unfolding horror, which he later described in gory detail at an official Army inquest. His testimony was very damning of Chivington and helped turn the nation against him, thus ruining Chivington's planned political aspirations. Soon afterwards, Soule was murdered in retribution. His killer, Charles Squier, though wounded by Soule, escaped, but suffered a most deserving fate five years later in Central America when his legs were crushed, resulting in gangrene and death. Despite his past crimes, his body was buried in Mississippi with honors.
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  9. I first about this incident while in college during the mid 70s. It appeared as an article in an aviation historical journal. I'm glad you were able to to recite this significant event in the annals of aviation.
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  10. A riot is an ugly thing, und I think that it is just about time dat ve had one!
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  11. They that go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters; These men see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For at his word the stormy wind ariseth, which lifteth up the waves thereof. They are carried up to the heaven, and down again to the deep. Their soul melteth away, because of the trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end. So when they they cry unto the Lord in their trouble he delivereth them out of their distress. For He maketh the storm to cease, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they are at rest; and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be. (Psalm 107: 23 - 30)
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  12. Great story. Now for the movie. On an unrelated note, have you considered doing a video on Ruth Mitchell? She was the sister of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, the father of the US Air Force. Her life would make an unbelievable movie.
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  13. DoD, I think that movie was about the Cabanatuan Raid which involved Rangers and Filipino Scouts.
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  14. What a cool movie this would make. I can appreciate Colonel Austin's hesitancy to talk about the mission if LeMay had still been alive. He was always a daunting personality, even in old age. When I was a brand new shave tail (2nd lieutenant) in 1978 I was assigned to escort duty for distinguished visitors at a major USAF Security Police symposium on Lackland AFB. One of these guests was General LeMay, who had been instrumental in the creation of the predecessor organization, the Air Police (now Security Force). During a BBQ housed under a large general purpose tent I saw him sitting alone at a picnic table eating his lunch. I briefly pondered the notion of joining him, but remembering all the tales my Dad had told me about LeMay when Dad had served in the Air Force in the late 40s and early 50s, I hesitated and decided discretion was the better part of valor. Soon some old acquaintances of LeMay showed up and they began chatting, so he was no longer alone. As for me, I've always regretted my decision, even though it was likely a prudent one, because we so rarely have the opportunity to interact with living history.
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  15. He was called Bloody Harris for a reason.
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  16. One my favorite aviation stories is the one about "Lawnchair" Larry Walters, the guy who floated over LA in 1982 using weather balloons tethered to his lawn chair.
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  17. As a kid I would watch Sea Hunt with my family every week. Loved the show. Lloyd Bridges was so natural in the role that I thought he was a real frogman.
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  18. The pistol shown in the video is a period correct 1911 pistol because it is marked "Model of 1911 US Army". This nomenclature changed in 1917 to "Model 1911". However, I doubt the pistol Fromme used was made in 1911 and could not have been sold as WWII surplus in 1913 since WWII didn't end until 1945. Even if it had been WWI surplus, that war did not end until 1918. In addition, the government contract for the pistols was only approved in Mar 1911 and the first batch wasn't even assembled until Dec of that year. The military never could get enough of them prior to and during WWI and had to compete with an identical 1911 pistol Colt made using a C prefix on the serial number which meant it was for commercial sale.
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  19. OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!
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  20. And some people wonder why unions earned such a bad reputation
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  21. Did they ever determine why Dr. Kelley was released by his kidnappers?
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  22. Did Hollywood ever make a movie about it?
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  23. Some of the best stories I've ever read were complete B.S.
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  24.  @danielsummey4144  Compare the views of "Rockefeller Republicans" to those of the Democratic Party today. You won't find much overlap. The same applies to liberal Democrats of that era. One could argue it was the natural progression of ideology, but if you could communicate with FDR, Truman, Kennedy, and LBJ, I suspect they would disagree.
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  25. Well, that explains the French. :)
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  26. Sebi, you must be easily entertained. Usually my stories make watching paint dry an entertaining pastime. 🙄
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  27.  @donlove3741  The P-51 is a single engine fighter. If the engine seizes, you are now flying a very heavy glider. I have added the word "engine" to my comment to clarify my meaning.
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  28.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Many of us who served in the military take exception. I know it is not meant as a slight, but the record should reflect historical fact, not perpetuate common misconceptions. I do appreciate your efforts to correct these misconceptions. Have you made a video explaining the way the Medal came about and how the standards for awarding it have changed over the last century and a half? Many people think it is awarded by act of Congress and still call it the Congressional Medal of Honor (misnomer).
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  29.  @TheHistoryGuyChannel  Thanks, I forgot I had seen your earlier video, but apparently I did give it a thumbs up. 🙂 I know Laura Ingalls Wilder embellished her books, so I can't say with certainty if the story of Pa surviving the night in a buffalo robe is true or apocryphal, but it was entertaining.
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  30. Roosevelt also liked to shoot the bull. :)
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  31. We kept chopping down taller and taller trees on our property until one 24 foot behemoth proved too big and unstable. We had to shorten it to 18 feet, then each succeeding year I searched for smaller and smaller trees. Two years ago I finally convinced my family to get an artificial tree. It's a pre-lighted eight-foot fir with frosting. No more needles or water on the floor, or trudging through the snow uphill while dragging a dead fir. We'll still have the memories, though.
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  32.  @BettyHorn  Not everyone learns the right lessons from history, thus we tend to repeat the mistakes of the past. I had a cousin who lost her family during the Holocaust and survived several concentration camps as a slave laborer. She was 17 when rescued by Allied forces. Despite her early life experiences, she was a big-government liberal her whole life. She saw nothing wrong with gun control. Some people never make the right connections; they just assume it can never happen in America. I doubt the American Indian or black slave would agree.
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  33. The Lemp families were a strange brew.
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  34. Say what you like about the Pacer, but it must have been a stoutly built car. A close friend and his wife were run off the Autobahn by a careless driver in a German car. At the time there were no posted speed limits, so every vehicle was doing well in excess of 80 mph. The Pacer rolled over several times and ended right-side up. It was not repairable but neither Bud nor his wife were injured thanks to their safety harnesses and a strong roof.
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  35. My ROTC detachment at Georgia Tech (1973-77) was a rogues' gallery of Air Force flyers. Our first detachment commander had started his career flying P-51 escort missions over Germany. Our second detachment commander was a former B-47 driver who kept a massive photo of the plane over his desk. One of my class instructors had been an AC-130 aircraft commander in Vietnam and another one had flown the RB-57 during that conflict. I don't recall if it was the D or F model, but in one of his desk photos he was wearing what looked like an orange space suit (as best I recall).
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  36. Your great grand uncle did not win the Silver Star; he earned it.
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  37. I have long been familiar with the incident of the USS England's extraordinarily successful attack on Japanese submarines, but not the background or postscript. It is the addition of the human touch that brings your stories alive and makes them history worth remembering.
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  38.  @WreckItRolfe  Nothing's more American than buying Walmart or Winco brand spicy brown mustard.
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  39. Sounds like a bunch of bored Klingons to me.
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  40. In Navy circles Cushing has long been viewed as the father of the PT boat concept. The only thing missing was a Gatling Gun, but I'm sure if Hollywood ever makes a movie about his daring raid, they will include one.
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  41. In the words of Winston Churchill, "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
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  42. So the invasion of Ukraine was merely a navigational error. That explains everything.
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  43. You do a great job. If my minor criticisms are all you have to worry about, then your grasp of history is heads and shoulders above most contemporary "scholars".
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  44. That was an extraordinary tale which I have never before heard. Many thanks for sharing it. Now, where's the movie?
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  45.  @shawnmiller4781  Which law are you referring to?
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  46. Of course vampires are real. Have you never met a lawyer?
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  47. Oh, great, I'll be 89 when the eclipse finally makes it over my place.
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  48.  Ross Cox  Uh-huh.
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  49.  @blueenglishstaffybreeder6956  The mask of anonymity allows anyone to be a macho internet commando.
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  50. Examples of chivalry among warriors throughout history is a noble tradition that has long defied the differences in race, creed, color, religion, or national origin. There is a popular phrase engraved on many Spanish swords which perhaps states it best. "No Me Saques Sin Razon; No Me Envaines Sin Honor." Loosely translated it means "Draw me not without reason; sheath me not without honor".
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