Aye. It's 2AM and I'm finished. At last. That was the last one from my R&R. For thse who haven't been tuning in recently, you may have to go back and search the archives. I've been blogging up a storm - which means most of these posts have scrolled quickly into the archives, (in less than a week). I think the maximum your browser will display is usually ten posts (the most recent additions) - and I've done about 24 in ten days, so if you've been gone awhile - start digging.
Now hopefully, I can resume photo-blogging Baghdad.
All the Best,
-MG
Provincial Reconstruction in Baghdad.
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- DONE!
- Bahrain
- Joe's Apartment
- The Wall
- Checkpoint Charlie (Pt. 2)
- Checkpoint Charlie
- The View
- Accomodations
- The Reichstag
- Aah, Berlin
- The River Valley, (Revisited)
- Churches
- Wiener Shnitzel (Miscellaneous)
- Belvedere Palace and Gardens
- Vienna Museum (and Siege)
- Wien, (Vienna)
- Budapest By Night
- Park, (with Statues)
- Synagogue
- Statue Park
- American Cemetary (?)
- Archaeology
- The Walls of Buda Castle
- Budapest
- Train Travel
- Top of the Hill
- What's New!
- LUNCH
- King Wencelas' Square
- Museum of Communism
- Inspired
- Architecturally sublime
- The Streets of Prague
- to Praha!
- Night Out
- Frankfurt
- Germany
- Martyr's Memorial
- The Grandstand
- The Crossed Swords
- Cliff's Re-enlistment (JULY 14th)
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QUOTES
The British in India, on the practice of satee: "You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom. When men burn a woman alive,
we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. So build your funeral pyre, and beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows.
You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours." - Brigadier General Sir Charles Napier
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. . . A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his own personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." ) John Stuart Mill
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, then depart from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Brewer and Patriot, Samuel Adams
"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have." - President Ronald Reagan
"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies." - Sir Winston Churchill
1 comment:
Bro Mastin!
Well docuumented R & R trip. Loved the historical photo's. Especially the old Berlin Wall shots. Yes, thanks to the Gipper, the wall is gone and the Cold War now is gone, but certainly has been replaced by a HOT War for real.
Wanda & your "Old Man" spent the weekend with us this past. We did a toast to you!
Our CMCC annual "Rendezvous" Trip is coming up soon. Wish you could attend this year, but we will Hold you to coming Next year for sure.
Keep your head down, and your powder DRY!
Best Regards!
David Russell
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