April 19

April 19 is a busy day in US history. I get a sneaky suspicion that there will be an addition to this list for 2021. I hope that this suspicion is unfounded.

1995 Oklahoma City Bombing

1993 The Waco siege ended when the FBI burned the compound to the ground

1989- A gun turret of the USS Iowa explodes. I was nearby on another ship. Had friends on the crew. The Navy tried to make one of the dead sailors into a patsy.

1985 – Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.

1865 Abraham Lincoln’s funeral is held

1861 First Union soldier killed by rioters in Baltimore while quelling pro-secession riot

1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord

Quote of the week

In honor of our loss of one of the greatest speakers of my lifetime, I present to you Rush Limbaugh’s quote of the week:

What about feeling sorry for those who pay the taxes? Those are the people NO ONE ever feels sorry for. They are asked to give and give until they have no more to give. And when they say ‘Enough!’ they are called selfish.

F15s over NOLA

As I type this, I am sitting in New Orleans. A pair of F-15s just flew down Canal street at the Mississippi River at an altitude low enough to read tail markings from the 20th floor of my hotel.

More on NOLA when I return home on Wednesday.