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3 Jan, 7 tweets, 3 min read

At the dawn of the new year, I'm realizing a never did a rundown of the top five posts from the blog in 2021. It was really guest writers who kept the thing afloat, as we can see with the 5th most read piece from 2021: Howard Zhou on China

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Coming in at number four, I look at Baron Harkonnen's exceptional tactical victory on Arrakis, and his subsequent strategic failure, in #Dune

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Number 3 is a piece showcasing the, uh, "angry" part of my moniker.

This still plea is still in effect in 2022, btw.

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Howard Zhou comes in again for the second most read piece of 2021, with an introspective look at a career in the Army.

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Finally, the most popular piece written in 2021 was an examination of how American memory changed regarding the Civil War, in its aftermath, as seen by US Army veterans of that war.

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I owe a massive "thank you" to all my guest writers this past year, who spanned multiple branches and even nations, making this a combined joint blog, I guess!

Huge thanks to Sara Ingrao, Ilhan Akcay, Adam Wendoloski, Howard Zhou, @dixondaver, Kenneth Bellows, Gregory Trahan...

@AuthorKRPaul

Thanks to Garri Hendall, John Q Bolton, and returning superstar and running champ @AuthorKRPaul!

Without these folks, ye olde blog would've had a pretty rough year given my op tempo.

Lastly, thank you, the readers, who are crazy enough to keep coming back. I am grateful.

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15 Dec 21

Welp, I finished grading. I got my booster, so I'm kinda out of it. My coworker gave me some awesome rum-filled eggnog.

Guess I'll lay in bed and watch "Patton" because it's been a while since I had a good laugh

It's important to remember that Patton did not have George C Scott's gravelly voice. He had almost an academic, nasally, higher-pitched drawl

And that makes all these lines absolutely *hilarious*

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15 Nov 21

My dad, 1955

This would explain why we always had about 15 dogs when I was growing up...

It's really, really, really a massive relief to find out that your dad wasn't a racist in 1956. Racism was never anything he modeled when I was growing up, but it's good to see it in his letters that he is disgusted with the actions of white southerners while he's at UNC

When my dad wrote, sarcastically, "The south is on the move" and put an arrow pointing to "south" with the caption "not worth capitalizing" he was commenting on the actions of students at the University of Alabama on Feb 7, '56 re: Autherine Lucy, a Black coed

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ok so i know it's been a hot minute since i yeeted this meme into the internet but i've only just now had enough bourbon to explain it in its full glory

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right, so this whole story revolves around my dude clarence ransom edwards from the great STATE OF OHIO. Born in the Land of Cleve, he's a bit of an irascible SOB, so I guess that's why he runs of to West Point to do whatever it is that they do there to make ossifers

My boi doesn't go great at the point of west. Like, not great at all. Fully last in his class. And not gonna lie, kinda respect him for that

the reason? Dude has a tongue sharper than a razor and isn't cray about the rules. Which yeah, would make time at WP pretty tough

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