tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post1898444777863730226..comments2024-03-28T00:47:48.409-07:00Comments on Lone Star Parson: Orde WingateLSPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08120630078039958644noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-33755042714690198932014-09-24T08:57:23.527-07:002014-09-24T08:57:23.527-07:00I see your religious education was, ahem, up to sp...I see your religious education was, ahem, up to speed...<br /><br />Interesting man, Wingate.LSPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120630078039958644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-76232067564883526932014-09-24T08:42:40.776-07:002014-09-24T08:42:40.776-07:00My RE teacher at the Langton was a Chindit under W...My RE teacher at the Langton was a Chindit under Wingate. Some great stories about detaching leeches from the male member.....lukeyanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-92028648565755224942014-09-23T08:45:02.159-07:002014-09-23T08:45:02.159-07:00Thanks, Padre. I thought you might like it.Thanks, Padre. I thought you might like it.LSPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120630078039958644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-78246617068226197142014-09-23T08:13:50.022-07:002014-09-23T08:13:50.022-07:00Wingate was a crazy-assed bastard and a model sold...Wingate was a crazy-assed bastard and a model soldier, albeit from the unorthodox section of the book. We celebrate the whole mystique of Special Forces today while mostly forgetting that it was pioneered by tough and eccentric men like him. Good post.Mad Padrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00410143683610813671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-23500212940984246882014-09-23T08:04:40.058-07:002014-09-23T08:04:40.058-07:00Sure thing -- Wingate's one of these rare peop...Sure thing -- Wingate's one of these rare people that rise up out of history. One dismayed headshrinker diagnosed him as "borderline insane"! Remarkable man.LSPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120630078039958644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-10146744709228034992014-09-23T01:32:03.524-07:002014-09-23T01:32:03.524-07:00I had never heard of Wingate, will be reading up o...I had never heard of Wingate, will be reading up on him! Thanks Padre.Brighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11299215170393879517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-91467093353768653712014-09-22T15:11:55.953-07:002014-09-22T15:11:55.953-07:00I fear you're right, LL.I fear you're right, LL.LSPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120630078039958644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-4698306240248008502014-09-22T15:11:36.775-07:002014-09-22T15:11:36.775-07:00Look him up, Jenny. Interesting character.Look him up, Jenny. Interesting character.LSPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120630078039958644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-31818130306872358782014-09-22T14:02:09.597-07:002014-09-22T14:02:09.597-07:00Quite liked this little lesson. Fascinating!Quite liked this little lesson. Fascinating!jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03139040043178237413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-23963731659751416002014-09-21T20:40:28.898-07:002014-09-21T20:40:28.898-07:00ISIL - The savages will tear each other apart unti...ISIL - The savages will tear each other apart until strong men emerge (like Assad the Elder and Saddam Hussein) and return the place to an orderly hell hole, the way it was before we invaded.LLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538854359365988863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-88062213805619578452014-09-21T19:17:21.433-07:002014-09-21T19:17:21.433-07:00Curious character, Lawrence, and I can imagine lit...Curious character, Lawrence, and I can imagine little love lost between him and Wingate. Icy silence sort of thing.<br /><br />Misfits for sure and our age seems to have little time for that.<br /><br />RIP to your friends and respect.<br /><br />As for ISIL, we need to get with the program.LSPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120630078039958644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407817413258733695.post-53159982896815604522014-09-21T19:03:12.316-07:002014-09-21T19:03:12.316-07:00I have an original copy of "Small Wars" ...I have an original copy of "Small Wars" by Callwell that I keep on a shelf next to the poetry by Robert W. Service and Kipling's Definitive Edition: 1888-1932. <br /><br />Wingate and those like him, which could include luminaries such as Fairbairn and T. E. Lawrence (the famous ones) and many who were never illuminated by pen and such, operated in a world without a 24 hour news cycle.<br /><br />Today, they exist in small numbers, mostly misfits, forgotten heroes from forgotten wars. I know some of them personally, though most are dead.<br /><br />None of them are in Iraq fighting ISIL because nobody cares about that one.LLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538854359365988863noreply@blogger.com