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Commemorating Gen Burgoyne's defeat, the first major British defeat, in the American Revolutionary war in Oct 1777. Burgoyne launched his invasion of the Colonies from Quebec, planning to connect with Gen Howe who had masterfully routed Gen George Washington from Long Island, Staten Island and Manhattan a year earlier. Gen Howe, perhaps overconfident of victory, moved on to battle in Philadelphia leaving too few troops in Oswego NY. Burgoyne's supply to Canada began to get stretched too thin and casualties were mounting. Despite wins he was losing men at in unsustainable numbers, and Gen Howe's army was not to be found. Burgoyne pushed on along the Hudson and crossed north of Saratoga Springs, because the colonists, aided by a Polish military engineer, Koskiusko built formidable defenses that covered Hudson's River and the roads on either side. THe colonists were wilier than first thought. Burgoyne was forced to cross into unfavorable, woody, hilly, terrain (The great Redoubt). For a month starting in Sept 1777 the Yanks and British exchanged daily volleys of artillery and musketfire, and clashed in savage battles throughout the farms around Saratoga springs. It must have been miserable for all soldiers there. Hard labor digging and preparing for war, poor sanitation and medicine and daily fighting. The British were down to 7000 men (from 10,000) and supplies were stretched. Colonists were gaining their military footing were also recruiting in higher numbers and fresh men were arriving daily. It is estimated around 13,000 Yanks were at the battles. In October 1777, The British Generals, Burgoyne, Fraser and German Riedesel launched an attack. Gen Gates, Morgan Learned and Poor somewhat unwittingly went headlong into the British Attack. A frustrated Major Benedict Arnold (with permission or not...is not clear) took a contingent of Gen Poor's men and rode off and between the British lines circling in behind the British soldiers. In fierce fighting Gen Arnold attacked a redoubt from behind and cause the British to panic and retreat. Eventually the British were surrounded and Burgoyne surrendered all his troops and equipment to the colonists at this spot. The colonists were clearly far more clever and determined, and would fight more bravely than the British expected. This was the first major British defeat and considered the turning point of the revolutionary war. It's amazing to be part of such a experiment in nationbuilding...and I found this fascinating and moving. This is the grit that built America, and it always makes me feel that the deaths of these men....and so many people in so many causes, from wars to civil rights, to equal rights and justice, and all the messiness that is the great experiment "America" needs to be understood and felt more strongly by each person. Everyone should treat their country as the precious gift it is and work as hard for it as you do for yourself. Watching democracy work, and worse being an armchair quarterback to it, or.....THE Worst proclaiming your unalienable birthright to the lands and freedoms and bounty that the country can offer, while not participating except in feckless namecalling, self enriching greed.... Having the chutzpah (or lack of, since chutzpah is a another great addition to the American lexicon through our Yiddish speaking Americans) to claim who is American and who is not....sullies the name of the people who did make the ultimate sacrifice here and throughout American history.
These guys dashed into fire driven by real ideals of equality and freedom. Actually they were likely just hoping to survive the battle tot he next day and not die of infection. They knew they were fighting the right cause, but could not have ever expected the society they helped create. I imagine that after the pain of fighting, death, and time in the ground, these men, from their fish-eye position of the next life would certainly castigate the pettiness, xenophobia, racism, ignorance, etc...that permeates such a rich society. They would remind us that there is only one life, it's short, even more so if you are cut down by war, violence or illness. And regardless of whether there was a heaven or Hades, or who was the universal power...if there was one.... American life should be seized tot he fullest...get educated, learn and understand the world, understand it from other perspectives, don't mind what others have or don't have...mind your own knitting (as mom would say!). Meet others, work with others, care for others, even the ones we dislike or find most foreign. Do hard work, do good work, do it for good's sake and if profit follows be gracious, and generous and don't forget the country in which this was possible.
Commemorating Gen Burgoyne's defeat, the first major British defeat, in the American Revolutionary war in Oct 1777. Burgoyne launched his invasion of the Colonies from Quebec, planning to connect with Gen Howe who had masterfully routed Gen George Washington from Long Island, Staten Island and Manhattan a year earlier. Gen Howe, perhaps overconfident of victory, moved on to battle in Philadelphia leaving too few troops in Oswego NY. Burgoyne's supply to Canada began to get stretched too thin and casualties were mounting. Despite wins he was losing men at in unsustainable numbers, and Gen Howe's army was not to be found. Burgoyne pushed on along the Hudson and crossed north of Saratoga Springs, because the colonists, aided by a Polish military engineer, Koskiusko built formidable defenses that covered Hudson's River and the roads on either side. THe colonists were wilier than first thought. Burgoyne was forced to cross into unfavorable, woody, hilly, terrain (The great Redoubt). For a month starting in Sept 1777 the Yanks and British exchanged daily volleys of artillery and musketfire, and clashed in savage battles throughout the farms around Saratoga springs. It must have been miserable for all soldiers there. Hard labor digging and preparing for war, poor sanitation and medicine and daily fighting. The British were down to 7000 men (from 10,000) and supplies were stretched. Colonists were gaining their military footing were also recruiting in higher numbers and fresh men were arriving daily. It is estimated around 13,000 Yanks were at the battles. In October 1777, The British Generals, Burgoyne, Fraser and German Riedesel launched an attack. Gen Gates, Morgan Learned and Poor somewhat unwittingly went headlong into the British Attack. A frustrated Major Benedict Arnold (with permission or not...is not clear) took a contingent of Gen Poor's men and rode off and between the British lines circling in behind the British soldiers. In fierce fighting Gen Arnold attacked a redoubt from behind and cause the British to panic and retreat. Eventually the British were surrounded and Burgoyne surrendered all his troops and equipment to the colonists at this spot. The colonists were clearly far more clever and determined, and would fight more bravely than the British expected. This was the first major British defeat and considered the turning point of the revolutionary war. It's amazing to be part of such a experiment in nationbuilding...and I found this fascinating and moving. This is the grit that built America, and it always makes me feel that the deaths of these men....and so many people in so many causes, from wars to civil rights, to equal rights and justice, and all the messiness that is the great experiment "America" needs to be understood and felt more strongly by each person. Everyone should treat their country as the precious gift it is and work as hard for it as you do for yourself. Watching democracy work, and worse being an armchair quarterback to it, or.....THE Worst proclaiming your unalienable birthright to the lands and freedoms and bounty that the country can offer, while not participating except in feckless namecalling, self enriching greed.... Having the chutzpah (or lack of, since chutzpah is a another great addition to the American lexicon through our Yiddish speaking Americans) to claim who is American and who is not....sullies the name of the people who did make the ultimate sacrifice here and throughout American history.
These guys dashed into fire driven by real ideals of equality and freedom. Actually they were likely just hoping to survive the battle tot he next day and not die of infection. They knew they were fighting the right cause, but could not have ever expected the society they helped create. I imagine that after the pain of fighting, death, and time in the ground, these men, from their fish-eye position of the next life would certainly castigate the pettiness, xenophobia, racism, ignorance, etc...that permeates such a rich society. They would remind us that there is only one life, it's short, even more so if you are cut down by war, violence or illness. And regardless of whether there was a heaven or Hades, or who was the universal power...if there was one.... American life should be seized tot he fullest...get educated, learn and understand the world, understand it from other perspectives, don't mind what others have or don't have...mind your own knitting (as mom would say!). Meet others, work with others, care for others, even the ones we dislike or find most foreign. Do hard work, do good work, do it for good's sake and if profit follows be gracious, and generous and don't forget the country in which this was possible.
Commemorating Gen Burgoyne's defeat, the first major British defeat, in the American Revolutionary war in Oct 1777. Burgoyne launched his invasion of the Colonies from Quebec, planning to connect with Gen Howe who had masterfully routed Gen George Washington from Long Island, Staten Island and Manhattan a year earlier. Gen Howe, perhaps overconfident of victory, moved on to battle in Philadelphia leaving too few troops in Oswego NY. Burgoyne's supply to Canada began to get stretched too thin and casualties were mounting. Despite wins he was losing men at in unsustainable numbers, and Gen Howe's army was not to be found. Burgoyne pushed on along the Hudson and crossed north of Saratoga Springs, because the colonists, aided by a Polish military engineer, Koskiusko built formidable defenses that covered Hudson's River and the roads on either side. THe colonists were wilier than first thought. Burgoyne was forced to cross into unfavorable, woody, hilly, terrain (The great Redoubt). For a month starting in Sept 1777 the Yanks and British exchanged daily volleys of artillery and musketfire, and clashed in savage battles throughout the farms around Saratoga springs. It must have been miserable for all soldiers there. Hard labor digging and preparing for war, poor sanitation and medicine and daily fighting. The British were down to 7000 men (from 10,000) and supplies were stretched. Colonists were gaining their military footing were also recruiting in higher numbers and fresh men were arriving daily. It is estimated around 13,000 Yanks were at the battles. In October 1777, The British Generals, Burgoyne, Fraser and German Riedesel launched an attack. Gen Gates, Morgan Learned and Poor somewhat unwittingly went headlong into the British Attack. A frustrated Major Benedict Arnold (with permission or not...is not clear) took a contingent of Gen Poor's men and rode off and between the British lines circling in behind the British soldiers. In fierce fighting Gen Arnold attacked a redoubt from behind and cause the British to panic and retreat. Eventually the British were surrounded and Burgoyne surrendered all his troops and equipment to the colonists at this spot. The colonists were clearly far more clever and determined, and would fight more bravely than the British expected. This was the first major British defeat and considered the turning point of the revolutionary war. It's amazing to be part of such a experiment in nationbuilding...and I found this fascinating and moving. This is the grit that built America, and it always makes me feel that the deaths of these men....and so many people in so many causes, from wars to civil rights, to equal rights and justice, and all the messiness that is the great experiment "America" needs to be understood and felt more strongly by each person. Everyone should treat their country as the precious gift it is and work as hard for it as you do for yourself. Watching democracy work, and worse being an armchair quarterback to it, or.....THE Worst proclaiming your unalienable birthright to the lands and freedoms and bounty that the country can offer, while not participating except in feckless namecalling, self enriching greed.... Having the chutzpah (or lack of, since chutzpah is a another great addition to the American lexicon through our Yiddish speaking Americans) to claim who is American and who is not....sullies the name of the people who did make the ultimate sacrifice here and throughout American history.
These guys dashed into fire driven by real ideals of equality and freedom. Actually they were likely just hoping to survive the battle tot he next day and not die of infection. They knew they were fighting the right cause, but could not have ever expected the society they helped create. I imagine that after the pain of fighting, death, and time in the ground, these men, from their fish-eye position of the next life would certainly castigate the pettiness, xenophobia, racism, ignorance, etc...that permeates such a rich society. They would remind us that there is only one life, it's short, even more so if you are cut down by war, violence or illness. And regardless of whether there was a heaven or Hades, or who was the universal power...if there was one.... American life should be seized tot he fullest...get educated, learn and understand the world, understand it from other perspectives, don't mind what others have or don't have...mind your own knitting (as mom would say!). Meet others, work with others, care for others, even the ones we dislike or find most foreign. Do hard work, do good work, do it for good's sake and if profit follows be gracious, and generous and don't forget the country in which this was possible.
Commemorating Gen Burgoyne's defeat, the first major British defeat, in the American Revolutionary war in Oct 1777. Burgoyne launched his invasion of the Colonies from Quebec, planning to connect with Gen Howe who had masterfully routed Gen George Washington from Long Island, Staten Island and Manhattan a year earlier. Gen Howe, perhaps overconfident of victory, moved on to battle in Philadelphia leaving too few troops in Oswego NY. Burgoyne's supply to Canada began to get stretched too thin and casualties were mounting. Despite wins he was losing men at in unsustainable numbers, and Gen Howe's army was not to be found. Burgoyne pushed on along the Hudson and crossed north of Saratoga Springs, because the colonists, aided by a Polish military engineer, Koskiusko built formidable defenses that covered Hudson's River and the roads on either side. THe colonists were wilier than first thought. Burgoyne was forced to cross into unfavorable, woody, hilly, terrain (The great Redoubt). For a month starting in Sept 1777 the Yanks and British exchanged daily volleys of artillery and musketfire, and clashed in savage battles throughout the farms around Saratoga springs. It must have been miserable for all soldiers there. Hard labor digging and preparing for war, poor sanitation and medicine and daily fighting. The British were down to 7000 men (from 10,000) and supplies were stretched. Colonists were gaining their military footing were also recruiting in higher numbers and fresh men were arriving daily. It is estimated around 13,000 Yanks were at the battles. In October 1777, The British Generals, Burgoyne, Fraser and German Riedesel launched an attack. Gen Gates, Morgan Learned and Poor somewhat unwittingly went headlong into the British Attack. A frustrated Major Benedict Arnold (with permission or not...is not clear) took a contingent of Gen Poor's men and rode off and between the British lines circling in behind the British soldiers. In fierce fighting Gen Arnold attacked a redoubt from behind and cause the British to panic and retreat. Eventually the British were surrounded and Burgoyne surrendered all his troops and equipment to the colonists at this spot. The colonists were clearly far more clever and determined, and would fight more bravely than the British expected. This was the first major British defeat and considered the turning point of the revolutionary war. It's amazing to be part of such a experiment in nationbuilding...and I found this fascinating and moving. This is the grit that built America, and it always makes me feel that the deaths of these men....and so many people in so many causes, from wars to civil rights, to equal rights and justice, and all the messiness that is the great experiment "America" needs to be understood and felt more strongly by each person. Everyone should treat their country as the precious gift it is and work as hard for it as you do for yourself. Watching democracy work, and worse being an armchair quarterback to it, or.....THE Worst proclaiming your unalienable birthright to the lands and freedoms and bounty that the country can offer, while not participating except in feckless namecalling, self enriching greed.... Having the chutzpah (or lack of, since chutzpah is a another great addition to the American lexicon through our Yiddish speaking Americans) to claim who is American and who is not....sullies the name of the people who did make the ultimate sacrifice here and throughout American history.
These guys dashed into fire driven by real ideals of equality and freedom. Actually they were likely just hoping to survive the battle tot he next day and not die of infection. They knew they were fighting the right cause, but could not have ever expected the society they helped create. I imagine that after the pain of fighting, death, and time in the ground, these men, from their fish-eye position of the next life would certainly castigate the pettiness, xenophobia, racism, ignorance, etc...that permeates such a rich society. They would remind us that there is only one life, it's short, even more so if you are cut down by war, violence or illness. And regardless of whether there was a heaven or Hades, or who was the universal power...if there was one.... American life should be seized tot he fullest...get educated, learn and understand the world, understand it from other perspectives, don't mind what others have or don't have...mind your own knitting (as mom would say!). Meet others, work with others, care for others, even the ones we dislike or find most foreign. Do hard work, do good work, do it for good's sake and if profit follows be gracious, and generous and don't forget the country in which this was possible.
Commemorating Gen Burgoyne's defeat, the first major British defeat, in the American Revolutionary war in Oct 1777. Burgoyne launched his invasion of the Colonies from Quebec, planning to connect with Gen Howe who had masterfully routed Gen George Washington from Long Island, Staten Island and Manhattan a year earlier. Gen Howe, perhaps overconfident of victory, moved on to battle in Philadelphia leaving too few troops in Oswego NY. Burgoyne's supply to Canada began to get stretched too thin and casualties were mounting. Despite wins he was losing men at in unsustainable numbers, and Gen Howe's army was not to be found. Burgoyne pushed on along the Hudson and crossed north of Saratoga Springs, because the colonists, aided by a Polish military engineer, Koskiusko built formidable defenses that covered Hudson's River and the roads on either side. THe colonists were wilier than first thought. Burgoyne was forced to cross into unfavorable, woody, hilly, terrain (The great Redoubt). For a month starting in Sept 1777 the Yanks and British exchanged daily volleys of artillery and musketfire, and clashed in savage battles throughout the farms around Saratoga springs. It must have been miserable for all soldiers there. Hard labor digging and preparing for war, poor sanitation and medicine and daily fighting. The British were down to 7000 men (from 10,000) and supplies were stretched. Colonists were gaining their military footing were also recruiting in higher numbers and fresh men were arriving daily. It is estimated around 13,000 Yanks were at the battles. In October 1777, The British Generals, Burgoyne, Fraser and German Riedesel launched an attack. Gen Gates, Morgan Learned and Poor somewhat unwittingly went headlong into the British Attack. A frustrated Major Benedict Arnold (with permission or not...is not clear) took a contingent of Gen Poor's men and rode off and between the British lines circling in behind the British soldiers. In fierce fighting Gen Arnold attacked a redoubt from behind and cause the British to panic and retreat. Eventually the British were surrounded and Burgoyne surrendered all his troops and equipment to the colonists at this spot. The colonists were clearly far more clever and determined, and would fight more bravely than the British expected. This was the first major British defeat and considered the turning point of the revolutionary war. It's amazing to be part of such a experiment in nationbuilding...and I found this fascinating and moving. This is the grit that built America, and it always makes me feel that the deaths of these men....and so many people in so many causes, from wars to civil rights, to equal rights and justice, and all the messiness that is the great experiment "America" needs to be understood and felt more strongly by each person. Everyone should treat their country as the precious gift it is and work as hard for it as you do for yourself. Watching democracy work, and worse being an armchair quarterback to it, or.....THE Worst proclaiming your unalienable birthright to the lands and freedoms and bounty that the country can offer, while not participating except in feckless namecalling, self enriching greed.... Having the chutzpah (or lack of, since chutzpah is a another great addition to the American lexicon through our Yiddish speaking Americans) to claim who is American and who is not....sullies the name of the people who did make the ultimate sacrifice here and throughout American history.
These guys dashed into fire driven by real ideals of equality and freedom. Actually they were likely just hoping to survive the battle tot he next day and not die of infection. They knew they were fighting the right cause, but could not have ever expected the society they helped create. I imagine that after the pain of fighting, death, and time in the ground, these men, from their fish-eye position of the next life would certainly castigate the pettiness, xenophobia, racism, ignorance, etc...that permeates such a rich society. They would remind us that there is only one life, it's short, even more so if you are cut down by war, violence or illness. And regardless of whether there was a heaven or Hades, or who was the universal power...if there was one.... American life should be seized tot he fullest...get educated, learn and understand the world, understand it from other perspectives, don't mind what others have or don't have...mind your own knitting (as mom would say!). Meet others, work with others, care for others, even the ones we dislike or find most foreign. Do hard work, do good work, do it for good's sake and if profit follows be gracious, and generous and don't forget the country in which this was possible.
Commemorating Gen Burgoyne's defeat, the first major British defeat, in the American Revolutionary war in Oct 1777. Burgoyne launched his invasion of the Colonies from Quebec, planning to connect with Gen Howe who had masterfully routed Gen George Washington from Long Island, Staten Island and Manhattan a year earlier. Gen Howe, perhaps overconfident of victory, moved on to battle in Philadelphia leaving too few troops in Oswego NY. Burgoyne's supply to Canada began to get stretched too thin and casualties were mounting. Despite wins he was losing men at in unsustainable numbers, and Gen Howe's army was not to be found. Burgoyne pushed on along the Hudson and crossed north of Saratoga Springs, because the colonists, aided by a Polish military engineer, Koskiusko built formidable defenses that covered Hudson's River and the roads on either side. THe colonists were wilier than first thought. Burgoyne was forced to cross into unfavorable, woody, hilly, terrain (The great Redoubt). For a month starting in Sept 1777 the Yanks and British exchanged daily volleys of artillery and musketfire, and clashed in savage battles throughout the farms around Saratoga springs. It must have been miserable for all soldiers there. Hard labor digging and preparing for war, poor sanitation and medicine and daily fighting. The British were down to 7000 men (from 10,000) and supplies were stretched. Colonists were gaining their military footing were also recruiting in higher numbers and fresh men were arriving daily. It is estimated around 13,000 Yanks were at the battles. In October 1777, The British Generals, Burgoyne, Fraser and German Riedesel launched an attack. Gen Gates, Morgan Learned and Poor somewhat unwittingly went headlong into the British Attack. A frustrated Major Benedict Arnold (with permission or not...is not clear) took a contingent of Gen Poor's men and rode off and between the British lines circling in behind the British soldiers. In fierce fighting Gen Arnold attacked a redoubt from behind and cause the British to panic and retreat. Eventually the British were surrounded and Burgoyne surrendered all his troops and equipment to the colonists at this spot. The colonists were clearly far more clever and determined, and would fight more bravely than the British expected. This was the first major British defeat and considered the turning point of the revolutionary war. It's amazing to be part of such a experiment in nationbuilding...and I found this fascinating and moving. This is the grit that built America, and it always makes me feel that the deaths of these men....and so many people in so many causes, from wars to civil rights, to equal rights and justice, and all the messiness that is the great experiment "America" needs to be understood and felt more strongly by each person. Everyone should treat their country as the precious gift it is and work as hard for it as you do for yourself. Watching democracy work, and worse being an armchair quarterback to it, or.....THE Worst proclaiming your unalienable birthright to the lands and freedoms and bounty that the country can offer, while not participating except in feckless namecalling, self enriching greed.... Having the chutzpah (or lack of, since chutzpah is a another great addition to the American lexicon through our Yiddish speaking Americans) to claim who is American and who is not....sullies the name of the people who did make the ultimate sacrifice here and throughout American history.
These guys dashed into fire driven by real ideals of equality and freedom. Actually they were likely just hoping to survive the battle tot he next day and not die of infection. They knew they were fighting the right cause, but could not have ever expected the society they helped create. I imagine that after the pain of fighting, death, and time in the ground, these men, from their fish-eye position of the next life would certainly castigate the pettiness, xenophobia, racism, ignorance, etc...that permeates such a rich society. They would remind us that there is only one life, it's short, even more so if you are cut down by war, violence or illness. And regardless of whether there was a heaven or Hades, or who was the universal power...if there was one.... American life should be seized tot he fullest...get educated, learn and understand the world, understand it from other perspectives, don't mind what others have or don't have...mind your own knitting (as mom would say!). Meet others, work with others, care for others, even the ones we dislike or find most foreign. Do hard work, do good work, do it for good's sake and if profit follows be gracious, and generous and don't forget the country in which this was possible.
Director of the 9/11 Commission and the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at U.Va., PHILIP ZELIKOW will discuss America’s role in the world today. Zelikow also served as Director of the Miller Center (1998–2005) and as Counselor to Condoleezza Rice in the State Department (2005–07). He is currently a member of the board for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s global development program.
Hosted August 30, 2010. Miller Center, Charlottesville VA.
For more information, visit millercenter.org/
Commemorating Gen Burgoyne's defeat, the first major British defeat, in the American Revolutionary war in Oct 1777. Burgoyne launched his invasion of the Colonies from Quebec, planning to connect with Gen Howe who had masterfully routed Gen George Washington from Long Island, Staten Island and Manhattan a year earlier. Gen Howe, perhaps overconfident of victory, moved on to battle in Philadelphia leaving too few troops in Oswego NY. Burgoyne's supply to Canada began to get stretched too thin and casualties were mounting. Despite wins he was losing men at in unsustainable numbers, and Gen Howe's army was not to be found. Burgoyne pushed on along the Hudson and crossed north of Saratoga Springs, because the colonists, aided by a Polish military engineer, Koskiusko built formidable defenses that covered Hudson's River and the roads on either side. THe colonists were wilier than first thought. Burgoyne was forced to cross into unfavorable, woody, hilly, terrain (The great Redoubt). For a month starting in Sept 1777 the Yanks and British exchanged daily volleys of artillery and musketfire, and clashed in savage battles throughout the farms around Saratoga springs. It must have been miserable for all soldiers there. Hard labor digging and preparing for war, poor sanitation and medicine and daily fighting. The British were down to 7000 men (from 10,000) and supplies were stretched. Colonists were gaining their military footing were also recruiting in higher numbers and fresh men were arriving daily. It is estimated around 13,000 Yanks were at the battles. In October 1777, The British Generals, Burgoyne, Fraser and German Riedesel launched an attack. Gen Gates, Morgan Learned and Poor somewhat unwittingly went headlong into the British Attack. A frustrated Major Benedict Arnold (with permission or not...is not clear) took a contingent of Gen Poor's men and rode off and between the British lines circling in behind the British soldiers. In fierce fighting Gen Arnold attacked a redoubt from behind and cause the British to panic and retreat. Eventually the British were surrounded and Burgoyne surrendered all his troops and equipment to the colonists at this spot. The colonists were clearly far more clever and determined, and would fight more bravely than the British expected. This was the first major British defeat and considered the turning point of the revolutionary war. It's amazing to be part of such a experiment in nationbuilding...and I found this fascinating and moving. This is the grit that built America, and it always makes me feel that the deaths of these men....and so many people in so many causes, from wars to civil rights, to equal rights and justice, and all the messiness that is the great experiment "America" needs to be understood and felt more strongly by each person. Everyone should treat their country as the precious gift it is and work as hard for it as you do for yourself. Watching democracy work, and worse being an armchair quarterback to it, or.....THE Worst proclaiming your unalienable birthright to the lands and freedoms and bounty that the country can offer, while not participating except in feckless namecalling, self enriching greed.... Having the chutzpah (or lack of, since chutzpah is a another great addition to the American lexicon through our Yiddish speaking Americans) to claim who is American and who is not....sullies the name of the people who did make the ultimate sacrifice here and throughout American history.
These guys dashed into fire driven by real ideals of equality and freedom. Actually they were likely just hoping to survive the battle tot he next day and not die of infection. They knew they were fighting the right cause, but could not have ever expected the society they helped create. I imagine that after the pain of fighting, death, and time in the ground, these men, from their fish-eye position of the next life would certainly castigate the pettiness, xenophobia, racism, ignorance, etc...that permeates such a rich society. They would remind us that there is only one life, it's short, even more so if you are cut down by war, violence or illness. And regardless of whether there was a heaven or Hades, or who was the universal power...if there was one.... American life should be seized tot he fullest...get educated, learn and understand the world, understand it from other perspectives, don't mind what others have or don't have...mind your own knitting (as mom would say!). Meet others, work with others, care for others, even the ones we dislike or find most foreign. Do hard work, do good work, do it for good's sake and if profit follows be gracious, and generous and don't forget the country in which this was possible.
Commemorating Gen Burgoyne's defeat, the first major British defeat, in the American Revolutionary war in Oct 1777. Burgoyne launched his invasion of the Colonies from Quebec, planning to connect with Gen Howe who had masterfully routed Gen George Washington from Long Island, Staten Island and Manhattan a year earlier. Gen Howe, perhaps overconfident of victory, moved on to battle in Philadelphia leaving too few troops in Oswego NY. Burgoyne's supply to Canada began to get stretched too thin and casualties were mounting. Despite wins he was losing men at in unsustainable numbers, and Gen Howe's army was not to be found. Burgoyne pushed on along the Hudson and crossed north of Saratoga Springs, because the colonists, aided by a Polish military engineer, Koskiusko built formidable defenses that covered Hudson's River and the roads on either side. THe colonists were wilier than first thought. Burgoyne was forced to cross into unfavorable, woody, hilly, terrain (The great Redoubt). For a month starting in Sept 1777 the Yanks and British exchanged daily volleys of artillery and musketfire, and clashed in savage battles throughout the farms around Saratoga springs. It must have been miserable for all soldiers there. Hard labor digging and preparing for war, poor sanitation and medicine and daily fighting. The British were down to 7000 men (from 10,000) and supplies were stretched. Colonists were gaining their military footing were also recruiting in higher numbers and fresh men were arriving daily. It is estimated around 13,000 Yanks were at the battles. In October 1777, The British Generals, Burgoyne, Fraser and German Riedesel launched an attack. Gen Gates, Morgan Learned and Poor somewhat unwittingly went headlong into the British Attack. A frustrated Major Benedict Arnold (with permission or not...is not clear) took a contingent of Gen Poor's men and rode off and between the British lines circling in behind the British soldiers. In fierce fighting Gen Arnold attacked a redoubt from behind and cause the British to panic and retreat. Eventually the British were surrounded and Burgoyne surrendered all his troops and equipment to the colonists at this spot. The colonists were clearly far more clever and determined, and would fight more bravely than the British expected. This was the first major British defeat and considered the turning point of the revolutionary war. It's amazing to be part of such a experiment in nationbuilding...and I found this fascinating and moving. This is the grit that built America, and it always makes me feel that the deaths of these men....and so many people in so many causes, from wars to civil rights, to equal rights and justice, and all the messiness that is the great experiment "America" needs to be understood and felt more strongly by each person. Everyone should treat their country as the precious gift it is and work as hard for it as you do for yourself. Watching democracy work, and worse being an armchair quarterback to it, or.....THE Worst proclaiming your unalienable birthright to the lands and freedoms and bounty that the country can offer, while not participating except in feckless namecalling, self enriching greed.... Having the chutzpah (or lack of, since chutzpah is a another great addition to the American lexicon through our Yiddish speaking Americans) to claim who is American and who is not....sullies the name of the people who did make the ultimate sacrifice here and throughout American history.
These guys dashed into fire driven by real ideals of equality and freedom. Actually they were likely just hoping to survive the battle tot he next day and not die of infection. They knew they were fighting the right cause, but could not have ever expected the society they helped create. I imagine that after the pain of fighting, death, and time in the ground, these men, from their fish-eye position of the next life would certainly castigate the pettiness, xenophobia, racism, ignorance, etc...that permeates such a rich society. They would remind us that there is only one life, it's short, even more so if you are cut down by war, violence or illness. And regardless of whether there was a heaven or Hades, or who was the universal power...if there was one.... American life should be seized tot he fullest...get educated, learn and understand the world, understand it from other perspectives, don't mind what others have or don't have...mind your own knitting (as mom would say!). Meet others, work with others, care for others, even the ones we dislike or find most foreign. Do hard work, do good work, do it for good's sake and if profit follows be gracious, and generous and don't forget the country in which this was possible.
Director of the 9/11 Commission and the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at U.Va., PHILIP ZELIKOW will discuss America’s role in the world today. Zelikow also served as Director of the Miller Center (1998–2005) and as Counselor to Condoleezza Rice in the State Department (2005–07). He is currently a member of the board for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s global development program.
Hosted August 30, 2010. Miller Center, Charlottesville VA.
For more information, visit millercenter.org/
Returning from resupply mission at UN Embassy, 21 October Road. Mogadishu, Somalia.
Photo credit: Personal Collection. Photo taken by author, Jan. 1994
Commemorating Gen Burgoyne's defeat, the first major British defeat, in the American Revolutionary war in Oct 1777. Burgoyne launched his invasion of the Colonies from Quebec, planning to connect with Gen Howe who had masterfully routed Gen George Washington from Long Island, Staten Island and Manhattan a year earlier. Gen Howe, perhaps overconfident of victory, moved on to battle in Philadelphia leaving too few troops in Oswego NY. Burgoyne's supply to Canada began to get stretched too thin and casualties were mounting. Despite wins he was losing men at in unsustainable numbers, and Gen Howe's army was not to be found. Burgoyne pushed on along the Hudson and crossed north of Saratoga Springs, because the colonists, aided by a Polish military engineer, Koskiusko built formidable defenses that covered Hudson's River and the roads on either side. THe colonists were wilier than first thought. Burgoyne was forced to cross into unfavorable, woody, hilly, terrain (The great Redoubt). For a month starting in Sept 1777 the Yanks and British exchanged daily volleys of artillery and musketfire, and clashed in savage battles throughout the farms around Saratoga springs. It must have been miserable for all soldiers there. Hard labor digging and preparing for war, poor sanitation and medicine and daily fighting. The British were down to 7000 men (from 10,000) and supplies were stretched. Colonists were gaining their military footing were also recruiting in higher numbers and fresh men were arriving daily. It is estimated around 13,000 Yanks were at the battles. In October 1777, The British Generals, Burgoyne, Fraser and German Riedesel launched an attack. Gen Gates, Morgan Learned and Poor somewhat unwittingly went headlong into the British Attack. A frustrated Major Benedict Arnold (with permission or not...is not clear) took a contingent of Gen Poor's men and rode off and between the British lines circling in behind the British soldiers. In fierce fighting Gen Arnold attacked a redoubt from behind and cause the British to panic and retreat. Eventually the British were surrounded and Burgoyne surrendered all his troops and equipment to the colonists at this spot. The colonists were clearly far more clever and determined, and would fight more bravely than the British expected. This was the first major British defeat and considered the turning point of the revolutionary war. It's amazing to be part of such a experiment in nationbuilding...and I found this fascinating and moving. This is the grit that built America, and it always makes me feel that the deaths of these men....and so many people in so many causes, from wars to civil rights, to equal rights and justice, and all the messiness that is the great experiment "America" needs to be understood and felt more strongly by each person. Everyone should treat their country as the precious gift it is and work as hard for it as you do for yourself. Watching democracy work, and worse being an armchair quarterback to it, or.....THE Worst proclaiming your unalienable birthright to the lands and freedoms and bounty that the country can offer, while not participating except in feckless namecalling, self enriching greed.... Having the chutzpah (or lack of, since chutzpah is a another great addition to the American lexicon through our Yiddish speaking Americans) to claim who is American and who is not....sullies the name of the people who did make the ultimate sacrifice here and throughout American history.
These guys dashed into fire driven by real ideals of equality and freedom. Actually they were likely just hoping to survive the battle tot he next day and not die of infection. They knew they were fighting the right cause, but could not have ever expected the society they helped create. I imagine that after the pain of fighting, death, and time in the ground, these men, from their fish-eye position of the next life would certainly castigate the pettiness, xenophobia, racism, ignorance, etc...that permeates such a rich society. They would remind us that there is only one life, it's short, even more so if you are cut down by war, violence or illness. And regardless of whether there was a heaven or Hades, or who was the universal power...if there was one.... American life should be seized tot he fullest...get educated, learn and understand the world, understand it from other perspectives, don't mind what others have or don't have...mind your own knitting (as mom would say!). Meet others, work with others, care for others, even the ones we dislike or find most foreign. Do hard work, do good work, do it for good's sake and if profit follows be gracious, and generous and don't forget the country in which this was possible.
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CAMP SCHWAB, OKINAWA, Japan – Okinawa residents and U.S Marines stationed at Camp Schwab pose for a group photo following the completion of a fence cleaning project July 2 near Camp Schwab. During the event, participants removed ribbons and litter from the fence line. The Marines are volunteers with various units stationed at Camp Schwab. The event showcased local support for U.S. military forces stationed on the island and demonstrated the good relationship between the Okinawa community and the U.S. Marines on Camp Schwab. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matt Myers/Released)
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CAMP SCHWAB, OKINAWA, Japan – U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Brittney N. Davidson, left, removes protest materials from a portion of the Camp Schwab perimeter fence alongside Okinawa Henoko residents and fellow Marines July 2 in Henoko. Most of the materials hung on the camp fence were ribbons, banners, and anti-base signs. The event showcased local support for U.S. military forces stationed on the island and demonstrated the good relationship between the Okinawa community and the U.S. Marines on Camp Schwab.Davidson is an ammunition technician with Combat Logistics Regiment 35, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matt Myers/Released)
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CAMP SCHWAB, OKINAWA, Japan – Tony Marano, a Dallas, Texas, native, removes litter from a portion of the Camp Schwab perimeter fence July 2 in Henoko, in support of a community relations event with Okinawa Henoko residents and U.S. Marines. The purpose of the project was to clean the fence and also showcase support for the U.S. military and service members on the island. Many Okinawa residents participated in the project and expressed a desire to continue further community relations projects with the Marines. The event demonstrated the good relationship between the Okinawa community and the U.S. Marines on Camp Schwab.Marano is an outspoken supporter of the Japan and U.S. alliance, and a popular YouTube personality. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matt Myers/Released)
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CAMP SCHWAB, OKINAWA, Japan – A box of scissors and other tools is staged near the fence line for easy access to remove protest materials from a portion of Camp Schwab’s perimeter fence July 2 in Henoko during a community relations project. During the fence cleaning project, Okinawa residents and Marines removed a variety of ribbons and litter along the fence. The event showcased local support for U.S. military forces stationed on the island and demonstrated the good relationship between the Okinawa community and the U.S. Marines on Camp Schwab. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matt Myers/Released)
U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. Charles L. Hudson, left, and Munekatsu Kayo cut a ceremonial ribbon June 25 at Camp Schwab signifying the official opening of a new visitor center and entrance gate. "The openings of this gate and visitors center are improvements we've made in preparation to support the Marines here now, and those that will be arriving in the future," said Hudson. "These two enhancements act as conduits between the Marine Corps and the local community, and they will improve our current and future operations." Hudson is the commanding general of Marine Corps Installations Pacific. Kayo is the mayor of Henoko.
U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. Charles L. Hudson, right, cuts a piece of ceremonial cake for Munekatsu Kayo June 25 at Camp Schwab in celebration of the opening of a new visitor center and entrance gate. "I think this will have a positive impact on the community because now it is easier for Okinawa residents to see the camp and interact with the Marines," said Kayo, the mayor of Henoko. Hudson is the commanding general of Marine Corps Installations Pacific.
U.S. Marine Col. Richard D. Hall, standing left, gives opening remarks to Marines and community leaders June 25 during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Camp Schwab. The ceremony demonstrated the capabilities of the new entrance and visitor center. In the remarks, Hall recognized the efforts of multiple community and U.S. personnel who collaborated to accomplish the important projects. Hall is the commanding officer of 4th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, and Camp Schwab commander.
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"If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road."
- George W. Bush, October 3, 2000
Scott Cooper, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University; Visiting Scholar, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, GW
Fraser Barry Cooper (born 1943) is a Canadian political scientist at the University of Calgary's Department of Political Science. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he teaches courses in political philosophy. Image courtesy of University of Calgary website. poli.ucalgary.ca/profiles/barry-cooper
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"That individuals should undertake to wage private war, independently of the authority of their country, cannot be permitted in a well-ordered society. Its tendency to produce aggression on the laws and rights of other nations, and to endanger the peace of our own is so obvious, that I doubt not [Congress] will adopt measures for restraining it effectually in future."
--Thomas Jefferson: 4th Annual Message, 1804
in new york on crosby between prince and houston
"See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."
- George W. Bush, October 3, 2003
I volunteered to photograph an event for Gawad Kalinga last weekend. SG based - The Chain Reaction Project (thechainreactionproject.com/) donated playground equipment to a GK village in Majada, Calamba, Laguna.