Amazing.

  • Biggles@qoto.org
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    10 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com

    “Those who don’t know history are doomed to look like an idiot on social media.”

  • Stu Duerson, machina exo deus@sfba.social
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    10 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com

    Kinzinger was in the WI ANG. I’ll be damned.

    I was setting up to get into that Guard straight from the Air Force, and central to that was a party I was throwing for them and all Wisconsinites near Frankfurt AB in Germany, 1977.

    And it would have worked, too, if those meddling Baader-Meinhof kids hadn’t blown up the O’Club the afternoon before the party.

  • ChrisU@mstdn.social
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    10 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com

    Hmm comparing a football game to D Day…
    🤦🏻‍♂️

  • JeffMorgan@mastodon.social
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    10 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com Wait what? But that’s all part of the story, the decision the weather forecasters had to make and the generals listening to them, all the ships loaded etc. etc. heck and bells, its one of those many facts we knew as kids. Who is this bloke anyway?

  • Peter Brown@mastodon.scot
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    10 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com and the second part of the mission collecting the Highland Division from St Valery was cancelled completely by fog, abandoning them to their fate.

    (nothing to do with the fact that St Valery was a really bad choice, with a high cliff behind it, making it almost impossible to approach safely from the sea )

  • Juleselt@universeodon.com
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    10 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com “A little rough weather…”.

    Sure dude, because a football game should come with frost bite of your dick and hypothermia. Otherwise you’re just a weakling for not showing up…

    Ffs, these people are politicizing extreme weather.

  • Raymond W Gallacher@glasgow.social
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    10 months ago

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com
    Completely true. My uncle was in the Royal Navy in combined operations. It was his third big seaborne landing. Bad weather held them back. Should have been on the 2nd or 3rd of June.