July 4th, 1913

The Smart Set: Battle Scars: Celebrating the Fourth with the Great Reunion of 1913.

The huge gathering of surviving Civil War veterans at the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Article doesn't mention that large groups of Boy Scouts were there, serving as aides to the aged veterans. A relative of mine was one of the young Scouts; he said he'd never seen so many old men missing arms and legs. A few years later, that memory was why he didn't join those rushing to enlist as soon as the US got into the Great War.

Reality is what the government tells us to say it is

Daily Dish: The NYT: We Changed Reality Because Cheney Wanted Us To

Remembering Ixtoc

Times-Picayune: 1979's Ixtoc oil well blowout in Gulf of Mexico has startling parallels to current disaster

A look back at what is now the 2nd worst oil disaster in the history of the Gulf.

(By the way, the name is Yucatec Maya, and is pronounced "Eesh-TOK", not "ICKS-tok". Sheesh, broadcast media, you've only had 30 years to learn that.)