Matt Mehan

Besides other work, I’m launching The American Book of Fables, celebrating America’s 250th, on May 19th! Also wrote Handsome Cygnet & Mehan’s Mammals!

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@pegobry_en @SamoBurja Superyacht tickets come at a price, PEG.

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tl;dr: prenups tend to postnups.

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

Here's what I found in Get Married: https://t.co/LXseNPrHRB

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Fun fact: the prow design of the USS Constitution was included as the border of one of the very first & most symbolic images in The American Book of Fables, for as Lincoln said, the Constitution is a frame that protects the Declaration etc. (not unlike our Navy protects our land.

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The US Navy operates a 50,000 acre forest in Indiana whose entire job is keeping one wooden ship from 1797 afloat.

The ship is USS Constitution, still a commissioned warship with an active-duty crew. Cannonballs bounced off her in 1812 because the hull sandwiches a wall of live oak ribs between two layers of white oak planking, nearly 2 feet of solid wood so dense it barely floats. British 18-pounders hit it and dropped into the sea. A sailor yelled "her sides are made of iron" and the nickname stuck.

Here's the problem with owning a 229-year-old wooden ship: you can't buy the parts. Hull planks run up to 40 feet long and 7 inches thick, cut from single white oak trunks. A white oak takes over a century to grow that big. No lumberyard on earth stocks it.

So the Navy grows its own. Constitution Grove at Naval Support Activity Crane holds trees over 100 years old, reserved exclusively for this ship. Foresters there are managing oaks today that will become hull planking in the 2100s. The maintenance plan literally runs on tree time.

Every 20 years or so she enters dry dock and shipwrights swap out rotted timber. After two centuries of this, estimates put original 1797 wood at maybe 10 to 15 percent of the ship. The Navy keeps replacing her plank by plank because Congress mandated her preservation and because she's the only active US warship that has sunk an enemy vessel.

Every other asset in the Navy has a decommission date. This one has a tree farm.

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That below is fake, but this is real (taken by yours truly)!

[MAGA Daddy @plramirez]

This is wild!

[Lenny @travels007]

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[TheBlaze @theblaze]

'The American Book of Fables': A feast of the imagination and spirit for readers of all ages https://t.co/a9qRMcgqdT

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@bridgettwagner Here is mine:

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I took this awesome shot of the greatest fireworks show in history, celebrating the greatest country in history, before one of the greatest memorials for one of the greatest victories, beneath God’s still greater light show!
God Bless America’s 250th!!

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@RobertOrdway @JanJekielek High praise from you!

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A great interview with @JanJekielek! We talk about patriotism and duty and about how important the war over our American hearts is for our shared future peace and prosperity.

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@WhiteHouse You might like this one too!

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I took this awesome shot of the greatest fireworks show in history, celebrating the greatest country in history, before one of the greatest memorials for one of the greatest victories, beneath God’s still greater light show!
God Bless America’s 250th!!

[The Epoch Times @EpochTimes]

@MTMehan Fables to save the nation 👇
https://t.co/09Q9cn0LLG

[The Epoch Times @EpochTimes]

How do we rebuild the American character?

Fables will save the nation.

Matthew Mehan (@MTMehan) suggests it starts with recovering our moral vocabulary.

He explains why fables provide a 'moral technology' that can help us move past the noise and cultivate the virtues—like justice, candor, and civility—essential to a thriving republic.

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@feedbackart @EpochTimes Take a listen to understand better what I mean here.

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I took this awesome shot of the greatest fireworks show in history, celebrating the greatest country in history, before one of the greatest memorials for one of the greatest victories, beneath God’s still greater light show!
God Bless America’s 250th!!

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Haha! Funnier still that his big break, Good Will Hunting was about trying to kick him up and out of his home town neighborhood!

[People Of The Internet @PeopleOfTheInt]

Hollywood has spent nearly $600 million trying to bring Matt Damon home

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But our 250th’s heirloom book!
The American Book of Fables!
https://t.co/dx3C4rh1mb

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I took this awesome shot of the greatest fireworks show in history, celebrating the greatest country in history, before one of the greatest memorials for one of the greatest victories, beneath God’s still greater light show!
God Bless America’s 250th!!

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@mycfhl In the flesh!!

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#LillianUpdate: she had a blast at the 250th fireworks at the Iwo Jima Marine Memorial

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@hughhewitt @LarryOConnor @DrLarryArnn @Hillsdale @Heminator @heymiller @henryolsenEPPC @RonDeSantis @GlennYoungkin

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Link to the interview: https://t.co/8SxpsHLoU1
Link to the book: https://t.co/hJLf9eVNLv