Samuel Whittemore was an American soldier. Gather ‘round to hear tell of his exploits.
Sam was born in Charlestown, MA in 1696 to an ordinary family. He wasn’t blooded until, as a 48-yr-old private, he helped capture the French Fortress of Louisbourg during King George’s War. /1
Sam returned from King George’s War at 52-yrs-old, and lived in peace for 12 years. Then, he signed up to serve in the French & Indian War, helping to capture the Fortress of Louisbourg yet again. He was 64-yrs-old. /2
On April 19, 1775, British forces were returning from the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Militiamen sniped the redcoats all along the way, so they were fired up and read for payback as they approached Sam’s village. The 79-yr-old grabbed his musket, two dueling pistols, and… https://t.co/DJKn5Yzd5Vtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The British were a finely-honed force, and the Americans were outnumbered but ready to give them a fight. Minutemen blasted away at a distance, scoring few hits, but Sam held his fire until they were right on top of him. /4
With his musket, he killed on redcoat. Then, he made both of his dueling pistol shots count, killing another and mortally wounding yet another redcoat. As he drew his rapier, the British concentrated their fire on Sam’s position. /5
A .67 caliber musketball struck Sam in the face, tearing off part of his jaw, his cheekbone, and blowing his eyeball clean out of his head. The enraged redcoats rushed forward and drove their 12” bayonets into Sam’s body 13 times. /6
The British move on, and the surviving militiamen regrouped and looked for Sam’s body. They mourned the old man, but perhaps not too bitterly, since 79 years is as much as any man could ask for. Except, when they approached his body, Sam was still alive, feebly trying to reload… https://t.co/q4qC5P8AbRtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
They carried Sam to a doctor, but the doc said there was nothing they could do. The musket-toting minutemen instructed him to do whatever he could anyway, so Sam was bandaged up and patched together, as his fellow militiamen stood on death watch. /8
The old bastard still wouldn’t die. He actually recovered, and then lived another 18 years, working his farm most of his remaining days until he finally allowed God to take him away at age 96.
Some men are just different. /end
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One of the greatest tricks the devil ever pulled was killing tens of millions of Russians while driving them at gunpoint into combat against their neighbors, then fading into the background and making it taboo to say his name as people blame the Russian people for it all.
Stalin was Georgian. Most of the early Soviets were run by Jews, and the secret police was mostly Jewish until the purges of the late ‘30s. Kruschev was born in Ukraine, and the USSR didn’t have a Russian-born General Secretary until Andropov in the 1980s.
Yet somehow the Russians, of whom more were killed than any other group, are the only perpetrators, while everyone else involved was their victim.
I think: DeSantis cannot beat Trump in a primary, and there’s nothing that could happen in the next year that will change that. If he goes hard, he will lose and never recover, but it’s hard to back out now w/o looking like a beta.
One way to back out w/o looking scared or deferential is to refuse to run and be the beneficiary of the Biden administration’s Gestapo tactics, and the Tammany tactics used against Trump in the 2020 election.
True, but he’s let it look that way, and his surrogates have been out there as if he was. I’m buddies w/a lot of DeSantis supporters, and I’m not trying to piss in anyone’s Corn Flakes, but RDS is in a no-win situation right now imo
Civilized people are at a huge disadvantage in these situations. The Target customer is an unbalanced anti-social, waking up in jail w/a black eye is just another Monday. The seated man has a job, people who depend on him, and should simply avoid places where animal attacks are… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Who hasn’t been in a situation where you had to decide whether it was time to end your date to get into a drag-out brawl w/gutter trash, or if it would better to just wait it out for a few minutes so you don’t have to explain to your boss why you’re in jail and can’t make it in?
Add to this the certain knowledge that the whole thing will be recorded and you’ll be turned into a hate figure by national media before you’re prosecuted for a hate crime.
About half of all a Union soldiers were either immigrants or the children of recent immigrants. That is, half of the army Lincoln sent to attack the grandsons of the American Revolution weren’t even here when it happened, and had no stake in the long-running North-South conflict.
The South voted to withdraw from the Union and fired on Fort Sumter after the Union refused several formal requests to remove that military base from their sovereign territory. Then Lincoln raised an army to invade and subjugate the South.
One of the uglier aspects of the Civil War was that men of means in the North were able to purchase an exemption while the Union imported armies of foreigners to fight their Southern countrymen for them, signing up recent and new immigrants en masse, often right off the docks. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Yes, as some have pointed out, the South had service referrals for prominent citizens as well, but that wasn’t really my point, which was that it strikes me as mercenary and dishonorable to import legions of foreigners to fight a civil war you started.
About half of all a Union soldiers were either immigrants or the children of recent immigrants. That is, half of the army Lincoln sent to attack the grandsons of the American Revolution weren’t even here when it happened, and had no stake in the long-running North-South conflict.