New Social Group: Steel Bonnets

[Kid Cossack]

Perhaps my favorite part of The Steel Bonnets was Fraser's introductory comments about seeing Billy Graham, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon all on the telly at the same time, and the images and associations it provoked within him.

Since first reading that, every time I think of Tricky Dick Nixon, I imagine him in my mind's eye in a steel bonnet.

[LANCER1562]

Another Kerr ringing in!

[macwilkin]

Perhaps my favorite part of The Steel Bonnets was Fraser's introductory comments about seeing Billy Graham, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon all on the telly at the same time, and the images and associations it provoked within him.

Since first reading that, every time I think of Tricky Dick Nixon, I imagine him in my mind's eye in a steel bonnet.

GMF (may light perpetual shine upon him) wrote of the fighting abilities of the Border Reivers in his autobiographical account of the Burma Campaign of WWII, Quartered Safe Out Here -- the modern-day descendents of the Reivers fighting the Japanese.

Regards,

Todd

[Kid Cossack]

GMF (may light perpetual shine upon him) wrote of the fighting abilities of the Border Reivers in his autobiographical account of the Burma Campaign of WWII, Quartered Safe Out Here -- the modern-day descendents of the Reivers fighting the Japanese.

Regards,

Todd

You know, if anything, I think I enjoyed QSOH more than I enjoyed any of the Flashman books, and I enjoyed them a great deal. Oddly enough, I was just recently rereading Quartered Safe Out Here for the third or fourth time.

They don't make 'em like GMF any more. "The past is another country. They do things differently there."