Poland and the Winged Hussars saved Vienna on this day in 1683 from the Ottoman siege.
It was the largest recorded cavalry charge in history with 20,000 horseman thundering down to save the city!
Jan Sobieski's epic charge down the mountainsides and right through the besieging Ottoman host with 18,000 cavalry was the inspiration for Tolkien's tale of the Rohirrim charging down to the relief of Helm's Deep.
After the battle was over and the Turkish host had been slaughtered, King Sobieski looked over the battlefield and said "Venimus, vidimus, Deus vicit" - "We came, we saw, God conquered".
Scott Ritter dropping truth bombs about the war in Yugoslavia.
We're the ones who took Kosovo away from the Serbs. We encouraged the Croats to ethnically cleanse hundreds of thousands of Serbs. Muslims killed entire Serbian villages. We've painted the Serbs as the evil guys.
People think 1980s stories like Fright Night, The Lost Boys, or IT are ridiculous when in real life hundreds of Scottish kids responded to a rumor of a 7 foot vampire eating children by ARMING THEMSELVES AND GOING TO A CEMETERY TO HUNT IT DOWN.
Therapist: Listen, to get to the bottom of your problems we need to start from the beginning
Me: Okay, so the Turks were originally a nomadic tribe from the Steppe
Therapist: What
Some things don’t change about being young and in the military.
When military dudes go out the following are almost always true:
- A dude wearing a cowboy hat
- a few wearing polos drown in PX cologne
- the dude that pre-gamed a little to hard and trying to catch his 3rd wind
- the dude too drunk to close the deal
- the guy that thinks he is the main character, and usually first to either:
A. Get in a fight
B. Slowly strips off his clothes
- the happy drunk, his buddy the angry drunk, and the guy too young to drink but is risking it because, YOLO!
- and the token black guy that is a one man party