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#WX • #USMC • Order of the Holy Sepulchre • Contented Villager • Rural American • Riverman •
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Joined October 2021
This is my grandfather's Winchester .30 WCF that he purchased in 1940 at a local hardware store for $19.50. It has put venison on the table for over 80 years, and it is an honor for me that I can still carry it for a few days every year.
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I have never owned a cat. Not once in my life. A few days ago, this little guy wandered up to me at a secluded lake, miles from any house, obviously abandoned. I couldn't leave him. I guess sometimes they do choose you. His name is Huck Finn, and I will end bloodlines for him.
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After receiving two back to back phone calls at 4 this morning I was informed I have another funeral to attend. Since I came home for the last time in '04 this makes 7. Fucking 7. My soul is broken.
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There are certain things to aspire to in life. Mr. Chisholm had it figured out.
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"Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god." -Aristotle
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I know that if I were to openly call for the assassination of a world leader, even with Shakespearean ‘Et tu Brute‘ allegory, black SUV's would have already encircled my house. Resign. Now.
Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? . The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out. You would be doing your country - and the world - a great service.
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On May 18, 1980, Richard Lasher, a Boeing employee at the Frederickson Plant in Washington State, was on his way to ride his dirt bike around Spirit Lake when Mount St. Helens erupted in front of him.
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I am buying the bike I could never afford as a kid. just out of spite. It's a huge personal win and I will probably happy cry.
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@SheSaysBadWords Believe me when I say I am not that guy. that is, until 2 pounds of grey fur shows up and turns me into a blubbering mess of emotion.
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In 1978, there were 47,700 dairy farms in Wisconsin. Since then, we have lost over 40,000 of them.
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This is the interior of a Pullman Express Train Car, built 100 years ago.
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A Great Depression era Christmas dinner in the home of Earl Pauley, Iowa, 1936. "How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him, he has known a fear beyond every other."
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No power tonight. We will take advantage of it and cook in the hearth and read by candlelight.
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"Rich is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got."
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My years of willingness to shed blood on foreign ground is only overshadowed by what I am capable of in defense of my home and those that live in it.
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@itsSpencerBrown American taxpayers are currently funding NPR, Saudi oil production, Planned Parenthood and a war in Ukraine simply by having a job. Happy Independence Day, serfs.
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@Culture_Crit The Penn Station sculpture 'Day' by Adolph Alexander Weinman, lying in a landfill in the new jersey meadowlands.
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When I stepped off that plane in Baghdad I would have loved a guaranteed 99.8% survival rate.
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The interior of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s hut in Cape Royd, Antarctica. He and his team spent nine months here in 1908, enduring temperatures as low as -58°. The hut remains as it was, abandoned in 1909, preserved by the extreme cold and low humidity.
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I'm on the side that has a lot of guns and believes in God.
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@DaleStarkA10 My patrilineal line has served since the revolutionary war. Every single generation has offered its sons. However, if my son does not enlist, I will not be disappointed. I will understand.
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@lovemylife81 My Great Grandfathers bible, journal, photo and plumblines from the 3 1/2 years he spent on the Hoover Dam project. His journal details of the deaths of many of his friends and are as harrowing as they are grim.
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@manhattanmaker You smell like Wrigley Field, deep dish, and out of state license fees. Our deer aren't dumb.
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@StrangerJosh11 I have started and restarted a thread on The Cathedral at least a dozen times. However, it has stayed mired in drafts because, honestly, I am still very angry about it.
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@HardPass4 I wonder if the space laser global cabal was targeting lithium mines and forcing green energy taxes in 1916. or maybe, just maybe, storms just fkn happen once in a while. The absolute hubris in believing man has the ability to control the weather is next level astonishing.
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@DaleStarkA10 Logger from my hometown. The Northmen are still here, the huge pine forests are still here, the river is here, the jobs are not.
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@jeepingeezer Tonight, after posting this, was the first time I have heard of this 'phenomenon.'.
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@Partisan_O His grave is visited often. His picture is on my wall. His son's table is in my dining room. His grandson's WWII journals are in my library. His great grandson's tools are in my toolbox. His great great grandson is me.
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@DempMcgee 1st Special Service Force. The Devils Brigade. Anzio, Italy. You were my hero before I found out you were everyone's hero. Rest easy, Grandpa.
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@braxton_mccoy A copy of The Glass Factory for my son. And one for me. The man does what he says, and says what he does.
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@JylesMcGilicudi He lived. "He made his way back down the mountain after being quickly overtaken by the ash cloud. He was completely blinded. The car choked out after a while and he rode his bent motorcycle out of the mountains back to the room he had rented.".
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@ClaytonEdge1 @TheRichFromCali Delete your account. Its going to get worse before it gets worse.
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@Partisan_O I do not have my great- grandfather's rifle, I do, however, have his wrench from the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad.
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@Partisan_O “Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again.”.
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@OneTonScoutII Literally just showed my son the way as well. this is his cap plate on a 2"X2" square tube. Kudos to you and your girl, brother.
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@macgregor63 Display their pictures prominently in your home, tell your children and grandchildren their stories. @Partisan_O
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@FairbairnBC @ABitWistful The independantly owned stores spread out quickly from the South, but most were later bought out by food giants [Kroger, Lion, etc]. 'Piggly Wiggly Midwest' formed as a co-op of sorts that refused to sell - 96 of them happen to be in Wisconsin.
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@anccpt Joe Ronnie Hooper received the Medal of Honor, 2 Silver Stars, 6 Bronze Stars, and 8 Purple Hearts en route to 115 confirmed kills, 22 of those in one day.
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@Snakeeater36 Its painfully obvious which men have grandfathers that stormed the coast of Normandy and which did not.
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@manhattanmaker I do not want an electric. I do not even want my 5.7Hemi. I want a carburated Flathead 6.
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