a bit of cheesecloth found in a small, neat cabin near the great keep had this endearing note carefully marked in charcoal letters by an unskilled hand. Cue a Ken Burns documentary violin, and imagine the voice of Robert Duvall as you read...
Dear Maw,
I am writin dis letter asittin at tha tavern in the old Keep. It's a nice place, the beer bucket ain't so good as yourn, knotte enuf bitters an' too much foam...also not so cool but it slakes a thirst purty good.
US Military governor in the Philippines, in a military car. Love the official "US" marking in old timey font...but no idea what the base paint color on the car is...wish I did. White? Khaki? Gray, light blue? Yellow photographs as very dark on most of these old films...but Maybe even a moss green...? No one seems to know.
I bought this Lesney diecast Spyker on the cheap so I could paint it up for my "Brass era" Gilded age US army.
If I go for a really light olivey tan, convert a driver, general, and ADC to ride it all I'll need is
Was a Pope Toldeo... as I dicovered while trying to find images of a jenny flying up here in Army colors... The color blue seems to have been standard as was yellow or whte for wheels, so the colors of the one just donated to the museum in Fairbanks are not intentionally blue and gold. A.A. Pope was a civil war vetran army Engineer officer before engineering cars. I only mention because army wagons were a hade of blue or green with yellow or red wheels...
When I was smoll, everywhere we moved Ma terrorized me by hanging these two framed prints, until I was about 9, and finally got the idea to pull them out of the frame and turn them around. Hideous things, but the memory is so strong that it was instant when I saw them come up in a search. Funny thing, in memory they combined to a vision of a horrible clown spotlighted on a stool...
before the US entered the first world war, our experience in the Phillipenes with the Moro tribes had already convinced some that soft caps were not ideal headwear for combat. The Brits trench experiences in 1915 underscored that modern wars demanded better headgear to stop "wastage" .(A horrific ephemism for casualties incurred outside an attack).
