by Bob | May 30, 2024 | Books, Movies and TV shows
Civil War: Surprisingly, A Very Good Movie, If Depressing I probably shouldn’t say surprisingly given the director. Its directed and written by Alex Garland who did Annihilation and 28 Days Later. But I saw ads for it and some trailers and thought it was some shoot...
by Bob | Feb 3, 2022 | Hidden History
One of the things I had to memorize as a plebe at West Point, besides esoteric stuff such as ‘How’s the Cow’ was an interesting piece of not-so-trivia: In sixty of the major battles of the Civil War, West Pointers commanded both sides. In the other five, they...
by Bob | Jan 3, 2020 | Hidden History
First interesting piece of trivia: William Tecumseh Sherman was the first president of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, which eventually became LSU. In 1860, with war clouds on the horizon, he wrote a letter to a fellow professor where he...
by Bob | Dec 13, 2019 | Cool Gus Approves (or not)
Through 16 December HERE. The first two books in my epic series, Duty, Honor, Country are free today. They’re followed, of course, by Country. And later in 2020, the 4th book of the series, Shiloh will be released. The Army-Navy game is tomorrow. Weird that...
by Bob | Oct 12, 2019 | Hidden History
Many people consider the two the same, but I don’t. One is inward oriented, the other outward. At West Point we had to memorize quite a bit of ‘trivia’ otherwise known as Plebe Poop, which is self-explanatory. One bothered me a lot: In 60 major...
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