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The Senate of Days Gone By. Back in the 80s and 90s the senate was way more fuckable than it is today. Compared to now, democrats were just a hot as the republicans. Check this table out.
Howell Heflin (D) - Sure he had his pant up to his nipples at times, but he had his moments of hotness. Paul Sarbanes (D) - I’d blown him. George Mitchell (D) - Would have blown him too. Sam Nunn (D) - He could have gotten some. David Boren (D) - Apparently, we had a shot with him. William Cohen (R) - He could had gotten anything he wanted from me. Unknown guy #1 sitting - Don't know who he is, but he too could have gotten some. Bob Dole (R)- I bet he had a mean grip with that bad had of his. What? Was that in bad taste? Robert Byrd (D) - Sure he was a former member of the Klan, but back then I didn't know that. Daniel Inouye (D) - I thought he was cute. Unknown guy #2 standing - I can't tell who he is, but again, he could have gotten some.
Now look at that list. Most of them are democrats. So fuck all you who think I support republicans. I support hotness, no matter what party they belong to.
I am constantly frustrated that all of the history I was taught in school was the history of straight (or straightwashed), White men. I get so angry when I think about all of the cool history I missed out on because textbooks want to ignore every minority unless it is specifically "Women's history" or "Black history".
Like, I've always been interested in World War II, but all of the coolest stuff was done by marginalized people who did their badassery in spite of their setbacks.
For example, Daniel Inouye was a Japanese American who spent the early years of the war in an Internment Camp in the US. When he got out, instead of being rightfully pissed, he enlisted. In a battle, he got shot in the abdomen. Ignoring the wound, he took a handful of grenades and started personally taking out a whole battlefield of Nazi tanks. When his arm was shot off by a rifle grenade, he pried the live grenade from his severed hand, and threw it at the Nazis through a narrow firing slit. He ignored his battalion telling him to withdraw and instead kept fighting until he passed out from blood loss. He was treated in a field hospital, then continued to fight with one arm until the war ended. He later served as a Senator for Hawaii. I never learned about Daniel Inouye in history class. I learned about him on Drunk History.
Then there's the 761st Tank Battalion. The 761st was a primarily Black battalion. This battalion did a lot of crazy things, like breaking Germany's Siegfried line and backing up the Russian army in Austria. When they were trapped by the Nazi infantry, Commander Ruben Rivers abandoned his disabled tank, took control of a second tank and continued to fight, forcing the Nazis to withdraw. By the end of the war, they had won battles in Germany, France and Austria, beating back the Nazis at every turn. Most were only honored posthumously and decades later. I learned about the 761st through recreational reading.
Another fascinating group were the "Night Witches" or "Nachthexen", the 588th Regiment of the Soviet Air Force. An all-female bomber regiment. Because they were an all-female regiment, they were given all the crappy secondhand equipment. They were flying repurposed crop dusters and only ran night missions. The craziest part is that these crop dusters were really loud and they were being shot down before they could drop their bombs. So they would fly out near their target, climb straight up, coast over the target, cut their engines, free fall, drop the bomb, restart the engines midair (which sometimes took a few tries) and then get out of there before the Nazi anti-aircraft artillery found them. The Nazis called them Nachthexen or Night Witches because the sound of a silent plane gliding past sounded like the sweeping of a witch's broom. That sweeping sound was the only warning that a bomb was about to land. The 588th was the most successful bomber unit in any Air Force in the whole war. The Night Witches weren't honored until the early 2010s. I learned about them on Pinterest.
These are the stories I've always found interesting that I think should have been taught in school. Please feel free to share other stories you might have. These are stories that need to be told.
“There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.”
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Daniel Inouye - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Inouye
Phil Hendrie on Drunk History Drunk History - Daniel Inouye’s Heroic Moment
Daniel Inouye (7 September 1924 – 17 December 2012)
The program was pushed by then-Senate Majority leader Senator Harry Reid (D-NV). The Times states that the bulk of the money was paid to Robert Bigelow, a longtime friend of Reid’s who runs an aerospace research company; his company is joined with NASA in an effort to create expandable craft for humans to use in space.
#AAPIHM17: The Navy recently celebrated the beginning of fabrication for the future USS Daniel Inouye on 31 October 2016. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is named for the former Hawaii Senator and WWII Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, Captain Daniel Inouye.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Dec. 7, 2003) -- U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye (HI-D), a World War II combat veteran and Medal of Honor winner, passes through the honor sideboys during the 62nd Pearl Harbor Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. More than 250 distinguished visitors and veterans were expected to attend the ceremony which also included the guided missile destroyer USS O’Kane (DDG 77) rendering honors, more than 40 wreath presentations, a 21-gun salute and the playing of taps. Adm. Fargo was the guest speaker at the commemoration. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Dennis C. Cantrell. (RELEASED)