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The grave of John Walker. He was the son of John Arthur Walker and the husband of Mrs. M. M. Walker, of Compton House, West St., Burgess Hill.
Clover Moore, Lord Mayor of Sydney with Alex Greenwich M.P. for Sydney at the wreath laying War Memorial, Pyrmont this morning.
Not in crowd watching any Anzac Day march again had to rely on Facebook.
Cnoc nan Uan, Stornoway. Erected 1920 as a memorial to those killed in the First World War. The monument is related in concept to that at Dingwall to "Eachann nan Cath" (Field Marshall Hector MacDonald) designed by James Sandford Kay in 1907. Lewis suffered disproportionately high losses on land and sea during the war, combined with the loss of 205 demobbed troops with the sinking of the "Iolair" on hogmanay 1918-1919.
The outside area of this large museum is filled with US military gear that was left behind after the war, including tanks, helicopters and other armoured vehicles. I got the impression this was just a lure to get American tourists to visit though, so they could be properly educated about the war from the Vietnamese perspective inside the museum.
The exhibits portray an extremely one-sided and anti-American view of history, and it was difficult to know exactly how much of the historical information could be entirely trusted, but it was impossible not to be shaken by the photographs and testimonies from the victims of the chemical weapons used by the US.
South Vietnamese troops move out on patrol from Firebase Fuller, a hilltop position four miles south of the demilitarized zone, Vietnam on July 20, 1971. (AP Photo/Jacques Tonnaire)
Civil War Artillery Piece at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Civil War Veterans' Section.
Heh heh. The 'shop window' outside Banksy's Turf War exhibition. Sprayed over it reads "Banksy is a fucking sell out" and that's well before Brangelina showed up.
Now that's harsh.
Royalist and Parliamentary forces clash at an English Civil War battle reenactment. Castlemeads,Gloucester 7.9.14.
Although he had fought the British with great distinction during the Boer War (1899-1902), Smuts was eventually reconciled with his erstwhile enemy, concluding that South Africa's future lay within the British Empire. He therefore supported South Africa's entry into the war and formed the South African Defence Force. In 1915 he and General Louis Botha conquered German South West Africa.
In 1916 Smuts commanded the conquest of German East Africa, but despite mobilising a large force he struggled to defeat Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's guerillas. Von Lettow-Vorbeck was still at large when Smuts left to join the Imperial War Cabinet in 1917. He made several morale-raising visits to Allied troops on the Western Front and the following year he helped create the Royal Air Force.
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Mary Owens (1808-1877)
Mary Owens was born to a prosperous planter, Nathaniel Owens, on his Little Brush Creek plantation in Green County, Kentucky, on September 29, 1808.
Mary and Abraham met for the first time in 1833, while she was visiting her sister Betsey Abell in New Salem, Illinois. After Mary returned home to Kentucky, Lincoln was quoted as stating that he “would marry Miss Owens if she came a second time to Illinois.”
He realized the consequences of his rash statement when Mary came to New Salem and considered herself engaged. Lincoln immediately regretted his promise, and his papers record his objections to the woman’s appearance, weight, and temperament.
Too honorable to simply break the engagement, Lincoln wrote three letters to Mary during their engagement, painting a bleak image of their future and subtly suggesting that she could do better.
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Friend Mary
. . . I am often thinking about what we said of your coming to live at Springfield. I am afraid you would not be satisfied. There is a great deal of flourishing about in carriages here; which it would be your doom to see without sharing in it. You would have to be poor without the means of hiding your poverty. Do you believe you could bear that patiently? Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine, that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. I know I should be much happier with you than the way I am, provided I saw no signs of discontent in you. What you have said to me may have been in jest, or I may have misunderstood it. If so, then let it be forgotten; if otherwise, I much wish you would think seriously before you decide. For my part I have already decided. What I have said I will most positively abide by, provided you wish it. My opinion is that you had better not do it. You have not been accustomed to hardship, and it may be more severe than you now imagine.
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In a later letter to friends, in which he recounted the story of the “scrape” with humor, Lincoln said some quite unkind things about Owens’ physique.
"When I beheld her, I could not for my life avoid thinking of my mother; and this, not from withered features, for her skin was too full of fat to permit of its contracting into wrinkles, but from her want of teeth, weather-beaten appearance in general, and from a kind of notion that ran in my head that nothing could have commenced at the size of infancy and reached her present bulk in less than thirty-five or forty years ; and, in short, I was not at all pleased with her. . . . Exclusive of this, no woman that I have ever seen has a finer face. I also tried to
convince myself that the mind was much more to be valued than the person ; and in this she was not inferior, as I could discover, to any with whom I had been acquainted."
He also reserved a fair share of criticism for himself for having so thoroughly misunderstood the situation. “Others have been made fools of by the girls,” he wrote, “but this can never with truth be said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance, made a fool of myself.”
"Although I was fixed, "firm as the surge- repelling rock," in my resolution, I found I was continually repenting the rashness which had led me to make it. Through life, I have been in no bondage, either real or imaginary, from the thralldom of which I so much desired to be free.
. . . After I had delayed the matter as long as I thought I could in honor do (which, by the
way, had brought me round into the last fall), I concluded I might as well bring it to a consummation without further delay ; and so I mustered my resolution, and made the proposal to her direct ; but, shocking to relate, she answered. No.
At first I supposed she did it through an affectation of modesty, which I thought but ill became her under the peculiar circumstances of her case ; but on my renewal of the charge, I found she repelled it with greater firmness than before. I tried it again and again, but with the same success, or rather with the same want of success.
I finally was forced to give it up ; at which I very unexpectedly found myself mortified almost beyond endurance. I was mortified, it seemed to me, in a hundred different ways. My vanity was deeply wounded by the reflection that I had been too stupid to discover her intentions, and at the same time never doubting that I understood them perfectly; and also that
she, whom I had taught myself to believe nobody else would have, had actually rejected me with all my fancied greatness.
And, to cap the whole, I then for the first time began to suspect that I was really a little in love with her. But let it all go. I'll try and outlive it. Others have been made fools of by
the girls; but this can never with truth be said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance, made a fool of myself.
I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason : I can never be satisfied with any one who would be blockhead enough to have me."
Mary Owens returned to Kentucky, married her brother-in-law, Jesse Vineyard about 1842 and had five children in Missouri. Only two children lived to adulthood. Her sons joined the Confederate army. Jesse Vineyard was killed in the Civil War
Mary Owens Vineyard later admitted to William Herndon: "I think I did on one occasion say to my sister, who was very anxious for us to be married, that I thought Mr. Lincoln was deficient in those little links which make up the great chain of womans happiness."14 She cited as evidence a horseback ride to "Uncle Billy Greens, Mr. L. was riding with me, and we had a very bad branch to cross, the other gentlemen were very officious in seeing that their partners got over safely; we were behind, he riding in never looking back to see how I got along; when I rode up beside him, I remarked, you are a nice fellow; I suppose you did not care whether my neck was broken or not. He laughingly replied, (I suppose by way of compliment) that he knew I was plenty smart to take care of myself."
She herself tried to "bend" Mr. Lincoln to test his "love," according to her cousin Johnson Gaines Greene. One day, when she learned from a messenger boy that Mr Lincoln was coming to the Abell's farm to see her, Mary deliberately went instead to Mentor Graham's house.
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Several US Cold War tanks. From left to right, the M26 Pershing (actually introduced late in World War II), the M48 Patton, and three variants of the M60 Patton. At the Camp Mabry Military Museum, Austin, Texas.
Vietnam veterans opposed to the war assemble on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, April 19, 1971, to protest the U.S. action in Indochina. Addressing the crowd is Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY), wearing hat. (AP Photo)
A few shots of the original SAS War Diary - Read about it on the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14952939
Collection number: 1000.088
Title: Canadian war pictures
Artist: Rider-Rider, William
Date of publication: Circa 1917
Description: Photos taken by William Rider-Rider, the official photographer for the Canadian War Records Office between June 1917 and December 1918.
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Repository: McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tulsa. 2933 E. 6th St. Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104-3123
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This is a general view of the first meeting between the United States delegation, left, and North Vietnam delegation on the Vietnam peace talks at the international conference hall in Paris, May 13, 1968. (AP Photo)
Collection number: 1000.088
Title: Canadian war pictures
Artist: Rider-Rider, William
Date of publication: Circa 1917
Description: Photos taken by William Rider-Rider, the official photographer for the Canadian War Records Office between June 1917 and December 1918.
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Repository: McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tulsa. 2933 E. 6th St. Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104-3123
General information about the McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tulsa is available at www.utulsa.edu/libraries/mcfarlin/special-collections.aspx
This is a scene from War Memorial Park in West Bridgewater, MA. I loved this place when I was a child. It's a small park filled with waterfalls, bridges, and birds. It's as beautiful now as it was almost 50 years ago.
Title: War Memorial dedication
Creator: Adolph B. Rice Studio
Date: February 29, 1956
Identifier: Rice Collection 942H
Format: 1 negative, safety film, 4 x 5 in.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Virginia, Visual Studies, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, VA, 23219, USA, digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R
Local members of the "Hell's Angels" motorcycle club form a human pyramid to wave flag and lead cheers at rally supporting American men fighting in Vietnam. A crowd estimated by police at near 25,000 turned out for the rally held this on October 29, 1967 on Wakefield, Massachusetts, common. (AP Photo/J Walter Green)