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Historian, editor, and translator for hire (🇩🇪 to 🇺🇸) longtime resident of Washington, DC, now in Conway, NH, as caregiver (he/him) ✊🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🗽
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But they are happy to take the rockets originally slated for Ukraine.
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I heard on a German broadcast this weekend that the people of Tehran have no bomb shelters. I was dumbfounded.
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More insane than dramatic.
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In a sane world, the U.S. could just nationalize the company.
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Those are white and red stripes. The blue between them is the background color.
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Lawton… isn't that where Fort Sill is?
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Instead, the Army's 250th birthday been hijacked and eclipsed by a megalomaniac. And that genuinely sucks, in ways that maybe hadn't entirely registered until right now. It's not fair
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And there's been bravery worth celebrating. There's been heroism and camaraderie in the Army even as our politicians sent us into shit situations for shit reasons
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The Army has traditions worth celebrating
We have spent decades fighting garbage wars that leveled countries and killed at least a million. That's on the politicians. People mostly join the Army to escape a bad situation, go to college, and/or because they believe in the goodness of America
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17% of soldiers are female but there are almost no women in uniform here. Most are from the press corps
Also way fewer Black soldiers than makes sense for a demographic that composes 20% of all soldiers
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Weird.
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The sounds certainly suggest a huge crowd.
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Troubling that "uniformed personnel" is as accurate a description as one can write of these men.
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Nice to see you out there. 🫶 Was doing the same in little old Conway, NH.
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I saw a big Ukrainian flag at the No Kings protest in Conway, New Hampshire, today. Too many people between me and the guy holding it to talk, so I just shouted "Слава Україні" to him to acknowledge his effort.
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Est. 4,000 people—huge for our scattered and rural area with multiple other protests 👑 for dogs only
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That generic "police" label on his uniform is not good.
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Such a contrast to my town, where the police were just doing normal police stuff, like stopping traffic for the marchers.
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Amen
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Whenever someone here mentions his name, I have to look it up. It just doesn't stick.