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Wigwam Jones
@wigwam
USMC Veteran, grandfather, anti-racist, gun-owning conservative who voted for President Biden. Currently-training Isshinryu Karateka. Still FUBAR.
Jan 11, 2020 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
Time for a story. Pull up a chair, if you'd like.

In July 1979, I shipped to Marine Corps Boot Camp in San Diego. I graduated October 27, 1979.

On November 4, 1979, Iranian 'students' stormed the US Embassy in Iran and took 52 American citizens hostage. They held them for 444 days, releasing them on the day Ronald Reagan took office, making Jimmy Carter's humiliation (including a failed rescue attempt) complete.

They released them, we believed, because Reagan had promised to make Tehran glow in the dark.