Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Books
I read and enjoyed the book steve recomended/They Marched Into Sunlight. Coincidentally while I was reading it We were honered by a visit from a family freind, Brittan Spriggs 18 years old and a private in the USMC. He is a very nice young man and has always been a good example to Dan as they have known one another since Dan was an infant. As a parent the idea of your child joining the USMC is a bit scary particularly now. His Grandparents are good freinds of mine and they couldn't be prouder or more scared. I could not think of a worse book for either one of them to read so I didn't say anything about it to them but thinking of them made the story much more powerfull. If you enjoy military history books and find the comparison to today's events in Iraq interesting you may enjoy "Mosby's Rangers" by Jeffry D Wert. It is the recorded events of the famous partisan Col John Mosby and the 43rd battalion. I was captivated by it mostly from a geographical standpoint at first, as I am very familiar with every trail,gap and hollow they trod but after reading it I couldn't help but see them as a close parrelell to our enemy in Iraq, minus all the idealoligy. They were a band of mostly locals fighting an invader of much greater power,yet with the support of the citizenry and some clever tactics they were a force to be recconed with. Mosby is still greatly admired and honered as quite a soldier particularly in the Blue Ridge of VA.
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Cool. I am so glad you liked it! Since Kyla took and enjoyed Military History last semester, she brought me a couple of books that I read on vacation. The one I like the most was The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory. They don't fight battles like that one anymore. The one I told you about on the phone was All for the Union : The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes. In that one, he spends some fruitless time trying to chase down Mosby, and some frustrating time being harrassed by him. I've read a few other things lately, so I'll probably post about those later.
I'm also planning on taking the second half of that same military history class (1865 to present) this coming semester so perhaps I'll be bringing home more military books for Dad to enjoy. On the same note I also have a friend in the Marines who is (last I heard) currently stationed somewhere in Iraq, not to mention a couple at West Point and the Air Force Academy. It is quite frightening to think of all my peers overseas fighting in this war, but it also makes it seem an apropriate time to be taking classes in military history.
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