Americans, encumbered with a love of all things military and the notion that those in uniform can do no wrong, quickly forget the sins of the most higher-up, the generals: the Petraeuses and McChrystals and their ilk. Pride went before their fall, but it’s all a ho-hum, let’s-move-on matter. But generals do matter: […]
Posts Tagged ‘Lincoln’
Lincoln & Obama, General-ly Speaking
February 1, 2014Looking Presidential
February 26, 2010Somebody please tell me which was the real “Presidents Day”? There’s Washington’s and Lincoln’s to whom we used to give a nod teach Feb. 12 and 22. Maybe no others were born in this month of the most “r’s” and the most oysters. Truth be told, some years we’re big on those two guys, some […]
Ichabod's Kin 