Comments on: Fighting the unseen foe http://kenalovell.com/blog/2007/06/13/fighting-the-unseen-foe/ Guru = Pahlawan Tanpa Tanda Jasa Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:52:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Administrator http://kenalovell.com/blog/2007/06/13/fighting-the-unseen-foe/#comment-1968 Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:25:40 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2007/06/13/fighting-the-unseen-foe/#comment-1968 My bad, I forgot about the War of 1812. Still it was a pretty pathetic invasion as invasion's go. No excuse though, especially when the whole thing was commemorated so beautifully in song: We fired our guns and the British kept a-coming There wasn't quite as many as there was a while ago We fired once more and they began a-running Way down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico Why can't they write songs like that about Iraq, eh? Still I recall that the Battle of New Orleans was fought months after the war had ended ... the news just hadn't got down to the bayou in time. Even in those days the damn Brits and yanks knew how to kill people for the wrong reason.. My bad, I forgot about the War of 1812. Still it was a pretty pathetic invasion as invasion’s go. No excuse though, especially when the whole thing was commemorated so beautifully in song:

We fired our guns and the British kept a-coming
There wasn’t quite as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they began a-running
Way down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Why can’t they write songs like that about Iraq, eh?

Still I recall that the Battle of New Orleans was fought months after the war had ended … the news just hadn’t got down to the bayou in time. Even in those days the damn Brits and yanks knew how to kill people for the wrong reason..

]]> by: gilmae http://kenalovell.com/blog/2007/06/13/fighting-the-unseen-foe/#comment-1933 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:19:08 +0000 http://kenalovell.com/blog/2007/06/13/fighting-the-unseen-foe/#comment-1933 "Australians and North Americans are amongst the few peoples of the world that have never suffered invasion by foreigners." Washington was burned, and New Orleans invaded, by the British in the War of 1812. Not sure how much that impacts on your central idea though, given that the US started the War of 1812. “Australians and North Americans are amongst the few peoples of the world that have never suffered invasion by foreigners.”

Washington was burned, and New Orleans invaded, by the British in the War of 1812. Not sure how much that impacts on your central idea though, given that the US started the War of 1812.

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