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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2022 5:15 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

I heard on the Denver news 30,000 stoners downtown @420 on 420
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2022 7:34 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

Adolf Hitler's birthday for what it's worth.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2022 8:40 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

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Adolf Hitler's birthday for what it's worth.


I celebrate April 30, when he killed himself.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2022 10:37 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

Forum member hambone celebrates his natal anniversary today, so that's big news.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2022 2:55 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

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Adolf Hitler's birthday for what it's worth.


I celebrate April 30, when he killed himself.


I am uncomfortably comfortable with that.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2022 7:36 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

I could care less...somebody asked "Birthday?" and his was what the date was known for...before NGHD.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2022 10:52 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

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Joe 20 wrote:
Adolf Hitler's birthday for what it's worth.


I celebrate April 30, when he killed himself.


The only radio contest i ever won was about that, for a reggae show from KFJC along time ago. I wasn't into reggae yet, and definitely didn't wanna show up knowing that date, into an unknown crowd. In my defense I was still in high school and it was recent topic and was easy to look up in a BOOK! IIRC it was Eek a Mouse..guess that 420 hasn't recked me yet... Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2022 11:36 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

96 years ago today Queen Elizabeth was born.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 3:01 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

came across this photo which is (reportedly) the sunset on the evening before D day - june 5th 1944 - from the life magazine archives. it's so calm and beautiful and it was the last one that many young men would see...
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:36 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

June 5, 1944 was a stormy sea, so invasion was delayed a day but conditions weren't much better. The sea roughness convinced Rommel that the Aliies would not attack then.....

Here's what Eisenhower had written in case the invasion was a failure:
"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops," Eisenhower wrote. "My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."

It's telling to see today where Eisenhower made changes in his note. He crossed out "This particular operation" to write "My decision to attack," which is emphatic and personal.

And he drew a long, strong line under "mine alone." When you see those words and that thick line on the note today, in the Eisenhower Library, you might feel some of the steel of a man who would so unflinchingly accept responsibility. Ike didn't try to camouflage failure in phrases like, "Mistakes were made," "Our projections were not met" or "I will say nothing pending investigation." He wrote, "any blame or fault ... is mine alone."

Dwight Eisenhower put the note into his wallet. The invasion succeeded, and although a lot of dying was ahead, his note never had to be used. But it revealed a character that was enduring.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 7:40 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

June 25, 1876.

Custer got his Arrow shirt from the Indians injuns redskins natives indigenous people at the Little Big Horn.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 7:39 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

They say he was killed by bullets...one to the chest and one to the temple. Ya gotta wonder...I get the joke though...was just as funny as in years past. Laughing

Some speculate he went down early in the fight and it was his brother Tom or Miles Keough who took command. Only those "other people" know for sure.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 8:05 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

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They say he was killed by bullets...one to the chest and one to the temple.

Likely bullets. The cavalry (not calvary) was under-equipped, many Indians had repeating rifles, cavalry had single shot. And his hair was short by 1876.
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Folks tend to forget that big-league baseball had games back in 1876, stuff like that...
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:11 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

Continuing with Cusser Custer:
Actually, one of the best explanations I've read was that it was very hot that day, and the cavalry had traveled quite far without stopping, with no water for the horses, and when the cavalry got to the stream that the horses wanted a $#$%^&&%$#%&&^$# drink and were not responding to the riders, and there was a quite small group of Indians on the other side, so the happenstance of that situation resulted in the Indians shooting a fair amount of cavalry and panicking the rest and also the horses.

I'm not a gun person, but it must be tons easier to shoot repeaters from the ground than use single shot rifles/revolvers while on a horse, unruly or not !!!
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 2:44 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

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June 25, 1876.

Custer got his Arrow shirt from the Indians injuns redskins natives indigenous people at the Little Big Horn.


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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 2:48 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

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Indians injuns redskins natives indigenous people

Thanks for being PC Rolling Eyes

Native Americans would of been enough.

Columbus didn't discover America... there were already people here that knew it existed Wink
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:38 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

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What I was wondering about is if the chest wound put him down and then someone (lots of relatives in his command) finished him at the very end. You sure didn't want to get taken alive. I guess we'll never know...
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:58 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

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What I was wondering about is if the chest wound put him down and then someone (lots of relatives in his command) finished him at the very end. You sure didn't want to get taken alive. I guess we'll never know...

We'll never know.

Many historians actually credit Custer with saving the Union at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 11:20 am    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

One Giant Leap For Mankind happened 53 years ago today.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 12:09 pm    Post subject: Re: This day in history Reply with quote

Glenn wrote:
Cusser wrote:
Indians injuns redskins natives indigenous people

Thanks for being PC Rolling Eyes

Native Americans would of been enough.

Columbus didn't discover America... there were already people here that knew it existed Wink


I often wondered why “Native Americans” was acceptable. This wasn’t America when settlers first realized there were others here before them.
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