Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for March 05, 2018

Write softly and carry a big eraser.

Hmm, I wouldn’t like him managing the editing at my www.the-tm.com.

And they’d better rush more, too.

Meanwhile, the 8th US Infantry (Colored)* were doing the real writing (that’s right, folks, Teddy & the RRs weren’t actually at San Juan Hill, they were at the much less important, much more lightly defended, and much less Spanish-sounding Kettle Hill – but hey, we couldn’t have black heroes, now could we? So TR showed up late, charged up the already-taken slope, and made all the papers – who gave nary a word of ink to the 8th (much like every US history book since

*Before anyone gets offended by the anachronistic term, that was the official name of the badass unit that actually took San Juan Hill.

The birth of the Rough Draft…

Some of those Rough Riders were Canadian and years later got involved with two different football teams. One in Ottawa and the other in Regina.