Er..... 6 dead, more than two dozen hospitalized in mass shooting at Highland Park Fourth of July parade; shooter sought
That is, undoubtedly, a shame and a disgrace, especially on this day. Yet the UK, too, has had its shames and disgraces, even on important national days like Guy Fawkes, Battle of Britain Day, June 18th (Waterloo Day), and the Queen's Birthday. I don't mention such things on those days here because I know that Britain is more than its shames and disgraces and that national days are for honoring the best in every nation. (And while we are speaking of the best, all honor to the Illinois police officers who identified and arrested the suspected very quickly.)
that is polite mate I could not believe how corrupt the words that spouted from him. He briefly played football as a goalkeeper at Brighton and Southampton in the mid 80s. Really ,trying to justify his actions
What an obnoxious, arrogant knob. I’m guessing the cops went to “mute” to say exactly that! Clearly the citation was for not producing his registration when asked (an expired one at that, apparently), she clearly stated that to him. He only produced it when he realised he was in bother. Awful, awful person, she was in no way rude or disrespectful, the only party acting that way was him. Followed by an insincere “apology” designed solely to save his political career, having had no concern whatsoever about trying to destroy the officer’s.
Sad to say that Battle of Britain Day seems to have become something of an irrelevance here now alongside so many of our traditions. I’m not sure how many people in the street, if you asked them now, could even tell you what date it is. When I was still working I used to always see someone at the railway station on the 15th collecting for charity, but I bet that’s a thing of the past now (I could be wrong as I’ve not been to a station for ages, but nationally, i.e. in the media, it’s barely mentioned, if at all). I personally don’t ever remember “Waterloo Day” being a thing, mate, not in my 61 years anyway. Nor Trafalgar Day for that matter.
Happy Independence day to our American friends History of the Fourth of July - Brief History, Early Celebrations & Traditions
A bit of movie nonsense, but why not? Three cheers for the red, white and blue Kind regards, always, Jim.
Happy Fourth of July! You know, I’ve always wondered why I rarely hear “Happy July Fourth”, given Americans usually say month/day, not day/month like we do. You can see what an exciting life I lead, wondering mind-blowing things like that.
I too wonder about such things. Didn't scan quite as well in Yankee* Doodle is my guess. Embedded from there. *Yes, Jeff. I know.
Hadn’t thought of that. My wondering is at an end. Clearly, before George M. Cohan wrote that particular lyric around 1904, Americans said July 4th - here is complete and unequivocal evidence of this from the 1870s, a scene from the wholly factual, historically correct “Custer of the West”, one of the greatest and most accurate films of all time:
Edward G Robinson, Raft and Bogart were good at playing gangsters but nobody could play them like Cagney