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Yes. Unless they are independently wealthy (Kennedy, Issa, Kerry, et al) they can't afford to fly privately, and unless they are on a rare international government mission, they are not eligible for military transport.Many years ago, when I was the "body man" for the late US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, he and Senator Ted Kennedy were flying from Washington to New York for an event, and I was the one staffer attending them. Everyone flew commercial as usual. Unfortunately, the weather was bad at LaGuardia, and we had to divert to Stewart Airport in upstate New York.When we landed at midnight in the back of beyond, imagine my surprise when it turned out that neither Moynihan nor Kennedy were carrying any money or credit cards! It was therefore completely up to 22 year old me to figure out how to get us all home!

In 1777, George Washington was almost killed in an ambush.On September 11, 1777, an army of 12,500 British troops who had recently landed at the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay marched through Pennsylvania toward the patriot capital of Philadelphia. Covering their flank, a detachment of green-clad British marksmen hid in the woods along Brandywine Creek, near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and kept a lookout for American forces led by General George Washington. Suddenly a cavalry officer dressed in the flamboyant uniform of a European hussar rode into view, followed by a senior American officer wearing a high cocked hat.Captain Patrick Ferguson, a 33-year-old Scotsman reputed to be the finest shot in the British army, commanded the British marksmen, who were equipped with fast-firing, breech-loading rifles of Ferguson’s own design. He whispered to three of his best riflemen to creep forward and pick off the unsuspecting officers. But before the men were in place, he felt disgust at the idea of such an ambush, and ordered them not to fire. He shouted to the American officer, who was riding a bay horse. The American looked his way for a moment, and turned to ride on. Ferguson called again, this time leveling his rifle toward the officer. The American glanced back before slowly cantering away.A day later, after he had been seriously wounded himself, Ferguson learned that the American officer he let ride off was most likely General George Washington. “I could have lodged half a dozen balls in or about him, before he was out of my reach,” Ferguson recalled, “but it was not pleasant to fire at the back of an unoffending individual, who was acquitting himself very coolly of his duty—so I let him alone.”Source:The Marksman Who Refused to Shoot George WashingtonSo if Washington had been killed,the USA may not have won the war and therefore may not exist.Sadman Sakibur Rahman

Monaghan was not included in the early 17th century plantations of Ulster, in which the Crown gave considerable lands to Scottish and English settlers. There was, however, an attempt by private Monaghan landowners to bring settlers into the county. But unlike the private plantations in Antrim and Down, this appears not to have been very successful. This may have been attributable to the relatively poor quality of the land: the “stony grey soil of Monaghan,” in the poet Patrick Kavanagh’s memorable line. When Ireland was partitioned in 1921–22, Monaghan was the most Catholic of the then nine counties of Ulster—a legacy of its having been largely unattractive to Protestant settlers 300 years earlier.Monaghan is the smaller of the two orange-colored areas on the map.