- Joined
- Jan 20, 2004
Oklahoma--musical
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!
Is this a song??Mila 18 - novel by Leon Uris (Mila Street in Warsaw, Poland - in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during WW2)
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)