Speaker Boehner & Harry Reid, Allow Frank Buckles Into the Rotunda

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 4th at 02:23 PM  | 

[UPDATED:] Press reports this evening indicate that Senator Harry Reid is siding with John Boehner on this. The post has been updated to reflect that. I think Speaker John Boehner and Harry Reid are making a terrible mistake. The Speaker’s Office and the Senate Majority Leader are blocking a request that Frank Buckles be allowed to lie in state (or in honor as the case | Read More »

The First World War Ends on Sunday

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 29th at 05:00 AM  | 

This is a random way to start your morning, but it is also something I bet you did not know. On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the guns fell silent across Europe with the cease fire concluding the hostilities of World War I. But Germany has continued pay for First World War under its obligations of the | Read More »

On the 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month, the Guns of August Fell Silent

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 11th at 11:00 AM  | 

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To | Read More »