Category: War
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Meanwhile in the Low country
This is real f’ed up.
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“Gentlemen, we are being killed here on the beaches; let’s move inland and be killed there.”-unnamed Colonel with the First Infantry Division
68 years ago today over 100,000 Allied troops crossed the English channel and landed on French soil. This invasion was officially known as “Operation Overlord” we know it as D Day. Many of the men were trained here in Georgia. One of them was Richard Winters who lead a group of 13 men in overtaking a Nazi gun emplacement known…
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Fighting Back-The War on Women
Last week I became aware of a entirely organic grassroots organization called Unite Against the War on Women. It began with just two women and has blossomed quickly into coordinated events in all 50 states calling for women and men to speak up, speak out to end the War on Women. While some could argue…