Lieutenant Hornblower

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[Lieutenant Hornblower @horatio65]

Truly, for some men, nothing is written unless they write it.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

"This is a nation, not a polyglot boarding house."

Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States

[Doctor Tom @neosovietposter]

The Late Roman Republic as a period of guys doing some of the most epic shit in history to aura farm enough to hopefully win a municipal election

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

Happy birthday to Horatio Hornblower, born on July 4, 1776.

[BONESAW 🕊️ @BonesawMD]

The clearest sign you're living 'authentically' or without absurd layers of performance, is found in your willingness to let people from different settings of your life meet each other. If the thought stresses you, it's bc you don't know which character you need to play. Your performances are so different you don't know where your real identity is, or where it's supposed to meet your characters. You're nervous because you've been giving the people in your life different scripts; you know they'll immediately sense when you deviate. And you're about to enter the scene in which you cannot rehearse your lines.

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

The hypermasculinity of today's operator culture is funny when you consider that the average British commando in the Second World War profile was like "First from Cambridge in Byzantine History, pigeon fancier, extremely gay"

[Bane of Mars @_putonthemask_]

"I pledge myself... to your teachings."

"Good. Good!"

[KPop Zigger Hunter @IhateMerkel22]

Btw my company commander would put his loaded pistol against his head with his finger on the trigger as a joke whenever we brought him bad news

[𒉭𓆏The Great Dane 𓆏𒉭 @thegreatdane269]

25-year-olds reminiscing about being 20

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

Always wild this was real and not some adult swim type skit.

[The Operational Alchemist @jameskgreer77]

Arrived today. Looking forward to reading @AmosFox6 challenge my thinking about warfare and maneuver. Iron sharpens iron

[Lieutenant Hornblower @horatio65]

@JDgrhrt @deaf_mime Every soldier at Benning knows that place lmaoo

[Lieutenant Hornblower @horatio65]

@deaf_mime @JDgrhrt Billiards on broadway lol

[himmy butler @tribuneoftplebs]

I only have Snapchat for the gc with my boot camp platoon from 2019. and every so often a we get a gem

[Nic Munoz @nic_munoz]

“Read and reread the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus, Turenne, Eugene, and Frederick. Model yourself upon them. This is the only means of becoming a great captain, and of acquiring the secret of the art of war.”

-Napoleon's 78th Military Maxim