Perhaps reflecting an early onset of Potomac Fever, John Kerry's purported boyhood favorite Red Sox player actually played for the Washington Senators.
 
In honor of Eddie Yost, the estimable Walking Man, we give you a clip of "The Walk" by Jimmy McCracklin, from the record Land of 1000 Dances, and "Walk That Thing" by Charlie Johnson's Paradise Orchestra.
 
Around the Horn:
 
While Washington, D. C., awaits the Expos (would they just move them already?), the Washington Post is running a feature, Bringing Back the Senators, a day-by-day retrospective of the 1924 championship season.
 
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Terror in the Skies: I read this piece and started getting that bad feeling again. Michelle Malkin has more.
 
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Cox & Forkum take a light to Michael Moore.
 
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Poor kid. Welcome to the brave new world.
 
Meantime, here's the Dawn Patrol's take on Ron Reagan Jr. and stem cells:
 
Remind me to dig up Ron's tulip bulbs sometime and run them through a Cuisinart—for research, of course. With his logic, he couldn't accuse me of stealing his flowers.
 
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Reader Scott Belliveau writes:
 
[P]lease find attached two Bastille Day images, both of which are related to World War One.
 
July 4 message * WWI French band
 
One of them bespeaks a happier time in Franco-American relations as does a smashing book. A Fraternity of Arms: American and France in the Great War. The book describes a very Bostonian event at which Marshall Joffre is greeted with wild enthusiasm at Faneuil Hall (James Michael Curley officiating), making a droll reference that only a few weeks earlier at the same venue, the news that German U-boats were sinking British shipping at a brisk pace was cheered as well, albeit with somewhat less enthusiasm.
 
You might also enjoy a book about the ambulance drivers, entitled Gentlemen Volunteers: The Story of American Ambulance Drivers in the Great War by Arlen Hansen as well as some of the many memoirs/recruiting tools penned by many of these drivers. By the way, here is a link to a memoir of one such driver. When I was younger, I always thought that had I been a young lad in 1915-1916, I would have volunteered for such service. Interesting to note that, like Rockwell, many of the drivers went over because they thought we owed France something for our independence.
 
Speaking of Acadia, this year marks the 400th anniversary of the French settlement in St. Croix in present day New Brunswick. So, for about three years, things were going well in North America--France on one end, Spain on the other. Then--Bam!--1607 and the English show up and spoil everything. Anyway, here are a few links related to this anniversary: Champlain Anniversary * Ste. Croix 2004 * Champlain Society

He adds a PS:
 
With the apparent purpose of raising money for a charity related to French soldiers and their families, a book entitled "For France" was published in 1917. It is a collection of essays, poems, drawings (cover art by N.C. Wyeth), paintings contributed by prominent artists of the day and some American volunteers with the French Army. It is fascinating how it reveals the ardent desire of so many Americans to help France and their firm belief that the United States--especially the government--was shirking its duty.