We Were Soldiers

Posted on January 27, 2008 | Filed Under Depth Charges

Ever since my military service in the mid 1980s I have long held a fascination with the Viet Nam war. I have read dozens of books about it and yes, unfortunately seen most of the Hollywood liberalizations. Here is an article that should be an eye open to those who still feel we were ‘mistaken’ both then, and now.

Who Owns the Vietnam War? by Arthur Herman

Immigration circa 1907

Posted on January 10, 2008 | Filed Under Depth Charges, Quotes

In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

–Teddy Roosevelt, 1907