Warbird Information Exchange

rip guido one of the real gentlemen of the warbird movement,i cant believe it's ten years.
i hope the new owner of his seafury do'es it proud.
paul

I wasn't aware of the battle between US and Canada, glad we are allies now. It's a similar thing with Great Britain. There is another group in the Alamo worth a salute. After Travis and his forces, including Crockett and Bowie fortified the mission as best they could, Santa Anna arrived with his advance force and surrounded the fort, with more Mexican troops following. Travis sent out courriers with letters descibing the situation, including his decision to never surrender; and asking for reinforcments. These letters survive today, so we know the story. Jim Bonham with 32 men from Gonzales rode into the Alamo, fought and died there.

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

I am glad we are buddies now too. For a while during 1812, my hometown (Windsor, then called Sandwich) was occupied by the U.S. As Canadians, our parents and teachers taught us that if Brock and his militia had not won the battle of Queenston Heights, "We'd all be Americans now." I'm not kidding -- just the way people here like to say that we'd be speaking German now if not for our GIs.

American accounts of the war of 1812 tend to focus on the burning of Washington, the exploits of the USS Constitution, the Battle of New Orleans, etc. The fact that the U.S. started the war in an effort to conquer Canada, only to get their butts kicked, is usually overlooked. Fortunately, the Canadians have not had to show the U.S. who's tougher again, except on hockey rinks.

August

K5083, Re. this battle in Canada, I sort of have my doubts. Are you trying to tell us that there were 1000 Canucks all sober at the same time? Possible, but highly doubtful. Also about this hockey stuff, does that stem from the latin word hooky, which means a lot of guys with few front teeth and no high school diploma? I will have to admit, like most Americans to enjoying the Olympic victory over Russia some years ago. By the way what the hell is "icing"?

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

Sober? Good Lord, I hope not. What does that have to do with it?



As did we! In those days we could only send the worst dregs to the Olympic tourney (you had to be a really bad hockey player not to be a pro in Canada at that time, before other nationalities started crowding into the NHL) so we never felt we had a dog in the hunt and it is always fun to see the Sovs get handed one. Truth be told, though, the quality of the hockey on both the U.S. and Soviet sides was lousy, it was a bit of a contest to see who could be worst.



It's that stuff between the cake and the candy sprinkles.

August