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@LeahRay44 @ItsMeGeoffrey Me neither.
Go 🇳🇴

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@UncensoredUSA Yup.

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@Oceanbreeze473 Heirloom seedless when I can find them.

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@ScarlettLee23 They work? Like real work?
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@ScarlettLee23 @libsoftiktok Anything for a vote.

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@judytgolf Get the firing squad ready.

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@EastStar_blue42 @ky_statesman "Flaunts it"?

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@drdenwalker I should have died decades ago then.

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@ScarlettLee23 @DavidJHarrisJr 🤣

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@ChristinaNewstv @FloydTommi68373 @grok can you summarize this post.

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@SteveLovesAmmo Japan.

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@Rog973521 @TheCalvinCooli1 Get in line, bud.

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@miles_commodore ...and thus contaminate the Carolina's?

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@franigenx Ditto.

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@DaveKerner @miles_commodore Correct.
But too bad. It's what ppl need to see.

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@OliLondonTV These ppl just have to ruin everything.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

"I am hunted like a fox by the enemy." A signer of the Declaration of Independence actually wrote those words. He moved his family five times in three months to keep them alive. Meet Thomas McKean.

McKean is one of the most important Founders you were never taught about, partly because he was too busy actually fighting to sit still for the famous painting.

Here's the setup. In July 1776, the vote for independence came down to the wire, and Delaware's delegation was deadlocked. McKean was one of its delegates, and he's the man who sent an urgent rider through a thunderstorm to fetch the third Delaware delegate, Caesar Rodney, for that legendary all-night ride that broke the tie and swung Delaware to independence. McKean helped make the yes vote happen.

Then, instead of hanging around Philadelphia to sign the pretty copy, he grabbed a musket. He took command of a militia battalion and marched off to actually fight the war he'd just voted for. Which is why, when almost everyone else signed the engrossed Declaration on August 2, 1776, McKean wasn't there. His signature got added later. In fact there's real evidence his name wasn't put on the document until years afterward, which can make him the last man to sign the Declaration of Independence.

And while he was out there, the British wanted his head. He was a marked man, a signer and a rebel officer, and they hunted him relentlessly. In 1777 he wrote to his friend John Adams the line that says it all: "I am hunted like a fox by the enemy." He described being forced to move his family five times in just three months, at one point stashing them in a little log house on the banks of the Susquehanna, only for them to have to run again.

Think about that. Not a general on a horse in a portrait. A husband and father dragging his family from hideout to hideout, staying one step ahead of soldiers who wanted to hang him.

He survived all of it. And then he just kept going. McKean served as President of Congress in 1781, meaning he was effectively leading the nation when the news arrived that Cornwallis had surrendered at Yorktown and the war was won. He later spent years as chief justice and then governor of Pennsylvania, and lived all the way to 1817, dying at 83.

A man who voted for freedom, fought for it with a gun, got chased across the countryside like an animal for it, and lived long enough to see the whole thing hold together.

Thomas McKean. Hunted like a fox, and never caught.

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@Retired_CFO @amuse These kids didn't try to kill anyone.

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@LangmanVince Will be here before ya know it!

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@MustangMan_TX No "possibly" about it.