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dorispulaski

Wicked Yankee Girl
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I'm Shipping Up to Boston by the Dropkick Murphies (lyrics by Woody Guthrie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-64CaD8GXw

This song was part of the soundtrack of best picture Oscar winner The Departed (movie)

It also produced this gem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Shipping_Up_to_Boston

A small Facebook meme grew up after Wisconsin State Representative and Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly Jeff Fitzgerald reportedly used the song during the 2012 Wisconsin Republican Convention in Green Bay. This usage prompted the band to release the following statement on Facebook:[2]


We just got word that Wisconsin State Rep and Speaker of the State Assembly Jeff Fitzgerald used "Shipping Up To Boston" as his walk-on song yesterday at the Wisconsin GOP Convention in Green Bay.

The stupidity and irony of this is laughable. A Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate - and crony of anti-Union Governor Scott Walker - using a Dropkick Murphys song as an intro is like a white supremacist coming out to gangsta rap!

Fitzgerald: if you and your staff can't even figure out your music you might wanna give up on the politics!!!!!

We stand beside our Union and Labor brothers and sisters and their families in Wisconsin and all over the U.S!
 

iluvtodd

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Mila 18 - novel by Leon Uris (Mila Street in Warsaw, Poland - in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during WW2)
 

merrywidow

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Mila 18 is a book title. I have a dozen or two that I'm waiting to use.

Winchester Cathedral--New Vaudeville Band
 

dorispulaski

Wicked Yankee Girl
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Andersonville by McKinlay Kantor (novel)
The NY Times acclaimed it as the greatest of the Civil War historical novels.

Andersonville was the prison in Georgia during the Civil War where about 13,000 Union POW's died.

http://www.nps.gov/ande/index.htm

It is now a memorial to all American POW's from all our wars, not just the Civil War (including Confederate POW's as well as Union POWs)
 

Tonichelle

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Andersonville by McKinlay Kantor (novel)
The NY Times acclaimed it as the greatest of the Civil War historical novels.

Andersonville was the prison in Georgia during the Civil War where about 13,000 Union POW's died.

http://www.nps.gov/ande/index.htm

It is now a memorial to all American POW's from all our wars, not just the Civil War (including Confederate POW's as well as Union POWs)

oooo I gotta read it!

oops back to game -

Callin' Baton Rouge - Garth Brooks
 

iluvtodd

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I Don't Understand the Parisians - from "Gigi"

Dee, Mila 18 was written by Leon Uris, who was probably best known for writing Exodus (which was made into a movie).
 
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