There was just one little problem
Good thing I have a flood in the plot!
My ride was Hecho en Mexico: A Nissan Sentra
I didn't make all the to Fort Ouienton, but I turned around about 20 miles shy in Attica, Indiana with John Mellencamp singing "Pink Houses" on the radio:
I stopped in Terre Haute and took some photos of the Vigo County Courthouse:
I stopped by the George Rogers Clark memorial. A little Bit different than Yesterday:
From Vincennes Memorial day 2011 |
From Vincennes Memorial day 2011 |
yes that's same top I wore in October . George told me he likes it.
There is a little cemetery by the Cathedral that has the Graves of several folk who fought here in 1779. The Only one that was decorated was Joesph Bowman, the only casualty:
Compared to the defeats I wrote about in Fort Wayne last month, This probably ranks as one of the American armed forces greatest victories. When Henry Hamilton, the British commander of sackville, surrendered, he said to George Clark "Where is the rest of your army?" (Hamilton had him outnumbered 3 to 1) Clark's reply "This is my army."
There several other Graves of Veteran of The siege of Fort Sackville, but died later on:
no one
no had bothered to decorate their graves. A Trip to Walmart was in order:
that's better!
1 comment:
As a vet and the brother and nephew of vets...Thank you for the taking time out of trip to decorate their graves.
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