I am a descendant of the third marriage of their father, William Harrison Howe. (They are from William Howe’s first marriage.)

I spoke at the dedication of the Civil War monument in that small town of Streator, IL. honoring these brothers. There were others present who are descendants, one a direct grandaughter of Lyston’s. Two of my siblings, and yet, another who is of a sister of my granddfather, who is also descended from this third marriage.
We traveled from OTHER small towns for the event. (Eventho’ my siblings, and myself are originally from Chicago.) My brother, and myself came in from small Tennessee towns, my sister from the nearby town of Romeoville, IL., the direct-descendant from Elgin, IL., and our cousin, from Portage, IN. All are fairly small towns, when we could have stayed in our small home towns for memorials there…we had a purpose in mind, of attending the event of the dedication of the Civil War monument by the town where these young “men” had resided.
The void of a memorial to Civil War participants was satisfied with this memorial, which was long over due, by the town; nevertheless, now it proudly stands among those of other wars, in their Veteran’s Plaza in the City Park. These two young “men” of that war have been perpetually “honored” with their names on that monument.

My colinear family members, along with myself, were and are, very proud to have been in attendance in this event.

Again, Thanks for your bringing these two brothers and their notoriety, to the eyes of the public.

Seven Medals of Honor have been awarded for actions in the wars and conflicts since 1975. Of the recipients, three have been from cities (Long Beach, California; Lincoln, Nebraska; El Paso, Texas), three were from small towns of less than 10,000 people, and one was from a large town, of a little under 100,000.

Unicorns & the rapture? Those are right up there with believing that folks in the heartland of the U.S. “have been taught to devalue the life [sic] of non-Americans.” You’re free to believe it; I’m free to cite facts proving otherwise.

You let in a bunch of immigrants and insist that they be allowed to keep their culture. And guess what? They vote against gay marriage.

Bruce Bawer, the gay writer, went to Europe to avoid the evangelical Christians and came back with horror stories about the Muslims over there. Pat Robertson, he has pointed out, merely wants to prevent him from getting married, but the Muslims of Europe want to kill him.

I spent a month in Egypt recently, and I was told in an orientation program that Egyptians recognize only three religions: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. So where does that leave Hindus, Buddhists and atheists? Nowhere, but at least Egypt can claim to be more liberal than Saudi Arabia. And while people like you love to bash Israel and laud the Palestinians, that is only because of what you perceive to be oppression of the latter by the former. If you ignore that and simply look at the two societies, you would be horror-struck by the bigotry, sexism and homophobia of the Palestinians.

And guess what the Japanese did to the Chinese in the 1930s? Or what a progressive like Pol Pot did to his own people?

It’s been said that if Europe had a democracy like ours instead of being run by elites, they would have the death penalty and execute people just as much as we do. And by the way, European soccer games these days have had so many ugly racial incidents that the soccer authorities have had to run a campaign against racism.

There is no good reason to bash small-town America as something uniquely evil.

Are all your service memories so laden with sexual imagery? With your seventeen year old ass squeezing as another mile of Colonel came chugging in, and oh, those scars on his legs from the canings…my god man, how is it that comment made it past the censors, you old troll. Having a good laugh at these Republican pant-crappers, are you? Pretending to be a military man, while moccking them. They’ll never see through it, I imagine.