Maj. Robert Rogers, the frontiersman whose 18th century manual on guerrilla warfare has become a blueprint for Army Ranger fighting tactics, is getting what some consider a long-overdue honor: a statue in his memory. But some veterans believe unveiling the monument on Memorial Day is insensitive because Rogers was loyal to England during the Revolutionary War.
"I think it's a travesty that we would think about honoring a person, especially someone who fought against us, on that day," said Bob Bearor, who served in the Army's 101st Airborne Division in the 1960s. "It's a sacred day. ... Let's honor our dead who died for our country."
Yahoo News article
Meanwhile....
Baghdad fights back.
Insurgents defied a much-touted military crackdown in the capital yesterday, targeting police checkpoints, the Oil Ministry and convoys of U.S. and Iraqi troops.[...]
Iraqi and U.S. officials had predicted militants besieging Baghdad with daily suicide bombings and assassinations would flee the crackdown, announced Thursday.
Iraqi and U.S. officials had planned to erect 675 checkpoints along the capital's outskirts to prevent insurgents from fleeing, but they have yet to set up an effective cordon. Instead, insurgents staged attacks across the capital, targeting the very checkpoints meant to ensnare them.
And one more question:
Why are the Americans who, before the U.S. was pulled into WWII, went to Europe to join the fight against occupying Germans called heroes, but the Syrians, Jordanians, and others who go to Iraq to join the fight against the occupying Americans are terrorists?
Even the smallest dog can lift his leg on the tallest building. -- Jim Hightower
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