Joe Gannon's Blog – September 2015 Archive (4)

Pals to the End: Every Dog Has His Day

Six weeks later, Stubby, the canine hero of the 102nd, was healed. The little scamp of a dog who had fought to survive on the streets of New Haven was was not easy to kill. He was sent back to the ranks, though the hospital staff and patients, who had been enjoying Stubby’s perky and therapeutic presence there, probably…

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Added by Joe Gannon on September 25, 2015 at 8:00am — No Comments

Pals to the End: A War Dog and His Irish-American Doughboy

" It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.” 

                                                                          - Mark Twain

On April 25th of 1919 in…

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Added by Joe Gannon on September 22, 2015 at 10:30pm — 13 Comments

Ongoing Effort To Identify War Memorials Throughout Ireland

I found this website a while back and was able to note the location of several interesting monuments and find them while I was in Ireland in June. This is by no means all the war memorials in Ireland, far from it, but it's an attempt to catalog them.

The site…

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Added by Joe Gannon on September 10, 2015 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Friends Until the End: Ambush at The Burgery, Part 2

(Pictured: The field in the hills north of Dungarvan where Sgt. Michael Hickey's body was found)

(Read  Part 1 - 'Nigh Comeragh's Rugged Hills')…

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Added by Joe Gannon on September 1, 2015 at 10:00am — 4 Comments

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