Chasing My Demons

Retired Combat Veteran. Jumpmaster, Pathfinder, Historian, Warrior Poet. Bearded, Tattooed Bourbon drinking, Pipe smoking Man

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Preach

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Dodge Challenger Super Bee x 👽

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A man who reads old books cannot be fully captured by modern stupidity. He has dead kings, poets, prophets, killers, saints, drunkards, generals, and madmen whispering in his bloodstream. The algorithm has no chance against this.

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Morning on the battlefield.

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Class and beauty.

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Well...books are in my top 5.

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"[L]et us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

– George Washington, Farewell Address, September 17, 1796; originally published in American Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796; Fitzpatrick 35:229

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Confederate cavalry officer-turned Ulysses Grant ally, John Singleton Mosby, known as “The Gray Ghost”, died on May 30, 1916 in Washington DC of surgical complications. He was 82 years old.

"There was more vindictiveness shown to me by the Virginia people for my voting for Grant than the North showed to me for fighting four years against him."

A political ally. He met Grant in DC to talk about a bill and the two became good friends and then political allies. "Since the close of the war, I have come to know Colonel Mosby personally and somewhat intimately. He is a different man entirely from what I supposed. ... He is able and thoroughly honest and truthful." (U.S. Grant).

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They probably wear sme-diums and flip flops too.

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Yes she is.

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Summer vacation begins. Let's roll bitches.

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On May 28, 1863 the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, along with their commander Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, marched down State Street in Boston toward the waterfront. The band played “John Brown’s Body”.

According to the Boston Evening Transcript “no other regiment has attracted larger crowds into the streets than the 54th.” At the harbor they boarded the “DeMolay”, which took them to Port Royal, South Carolina.

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