#us histroy

[rabbitcruiser]

The Pike Place Market was opened on August 17, 1907.

[theamericanparlor]

Taps

Taps was first performed at Civil War burial ceremonies in 1862, but its origin and authorship of the music and its lyrics remain unverified. The tune might have been written and found in the pocket of a dead Confederate soldier by his father, a Union Army infantry officer, who asked that it be played at his son's funeral. Union Army Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield is the more likely source of the current tune, first played by his bugler, Norton. Union artillery Captain John C. Tidball ordered it first played at a soldier's burial, a safer alternative to the three volley tribute, which would have given away the unit's hidden position to the Confederates. A lesser-known legend for its naming is that Lieutenant William Waid paid saloon-keepers to shut off the taps to the kegs when the song was played in a neighboring army camp. The lyrics might have been composed by Horace Lorenzo Trim, but that's also unverified. Suffice it to say the solemn tune and its lyrics pay tribute to all fallen American soldiers, past and present.

Day is done, gone the sun, From the lake, from the hills, from the sky; All is well, safely rest, God is nigh. Fading light, dims the sight, And a star gems the sky, gleaming bright. From afar, drawing nigh, falls the night. Thanks and praise, for our days, 'Neath the sun, 'neath the stars, neath the sky; As we go, this we know, God is nigh. Sun has set, shadows come, Time has fled, Scouts must go to their beds Always true to the promise that they made. While the light fades from sight, And the stars gleaming rays softly send, To thy hands we our souls, Lord, commend.

https://americanliterature.com/author/anonymous/poem/taps

[rabbitcruiser]

Day 33 in Pennsylvania: Gap Clock Tower and Paoli Battlefield

[rabbitcruiser]

Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, was launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969.

[rabbitcruiser]

Day 30 in Gettysburg

[apveng]

Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday… but not for the reasons we remember. Everyone generally knows that the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags shared a feast in fall 1621, and that early colonial leaders periodically declared days of thanksgiving when settlers were supposed to give their thanks for continued life and-- with luck-- prosperity.

[rabbitcruiser]

The Battle of Alcatraz, which lasted from May 2 to 4, 1946, was the result of an unsuccessful escape attempt at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Two corrections officers—William A. Miller and Harold Stites—were killed along with three of the inmates. Eleven corrections officers and one uninvolved convict were also injured. Two of the surviving convicts were later executed for their roles.

[badasscivilwarbeards]

Pin

I can't quite pin down what exactly makes Robert Pinn a total badass. Is it the fact that he was a First Sergeant in the Army and received the Medal of Honor? Or the fact that he was a lawyer and a teacher and a principal and a contractor? Or maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with his handsome goatee...