Surf Buddha

Musician, Father of 4 boys, Self Imposed Searcher of Truth, Individual who was once a clump of cells, and Dayz addict

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@BBGreatMoments Don Zimmer, Jim Frey and Pete Rose all went to the same high school in the west side of Cincinnati, West Hi. All are baseball legends

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@BBGreatMoments Mario Soto was a bad ass

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@WhoDey_UK @pauldehnerjr @KelseyLConway Worthmore! You can order it from the Kroger app and have it delivered! Bold take but it’s better than Cincy chili!

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@Timcast He had the I-495 defense shield deployed…

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@BrianRoemmele How’d the sticky tape issue? Any problems with replay?

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@HistorianUSA1 Thanks for the bait! And the chum!

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@IslamInvasion I hate AI so much

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@JimSichko Good Bourbon too!!!!

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@philthatremains I saw Kelly’s hero’s man! Woof woof!

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@_RedWalrus_ @thehealthb0t Amen brother

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@thinman_2001 @classic_film Mucho Acuerdo!

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@Laytaho I would have emptied the magazine in them, I think he showed great humanity and restraint

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@coffee_anytime And he’s smoking a cigarette at the same time now that’s bad ass!!

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The beginning of modern warfare

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On this day in 1864, the most savage 20 hours of the entire Civil War unfolded on a patch of Virginia farmland the size of three city blocks.

At 4:35 AM, in heavy fog and pouring rain, 20,000 men of Hancock's Union II Corps charged silently up a hill. Confederate pickets, soaked and exhausted, fired one volley before being overrun. Within minutes, the Federals had captured nearly an entire Confederate division, including Maj. Gen. Edward "Allegheny" Johnson, Brig. Gen. George "Maryland" Steuart, and what was left of Stonewall Jackson's old brigade.

Robert E. Lee thought the war might end that morning.

Instead, John B. Gordon's reserves slammed into the Union flank in a counterattack so desperate that Lee rode personally toward the front, until his own men grabbed his bridle and shouted "Lee to the rear!"

What followed was something nobody had ever seen.

For the next twenty hours, in driving rain, the two armies fought at a section of trenches called the Mule Shoe and did not stop firing. Men climbed onto the parapet to shoot down into the trench, were shot themselves, and fell into a pile of bodies stacked three and four deep.

Musket barrels overheated and burst. Rifles became clubs. Bayonets pinned men to the mud. Trench water turned red and rose so high that wounded men drowned in it.

The fire was so relentless that a 22-inch oak tree behind the Confederate line was cut clean through by minié balls alone. It toppled onto the men still fighting beneath it.

The stump sits in the Smithsonian to this day.

Around 3 AM, the Confederates fell back to a new line. Roughly 17,000 men lay killed, wounded, or captured.

One Union officer wrote afterward: "I never expect to be fully believed when I tell what I saw of the horrors of Spotsylvania."

He's probably still right.

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@JeromehartlF @53flatbed @CynicalPublius Sensoround!!!! Never before have a heard a theater cheer so loud when they blew up the first flattop

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@greta The Pacific is about 10 hours and makes you yearn to have people like this alive again

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@PaulPoteet You can be Les Nesman Paul!!!

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@DRFW @JVMonte2 Amen!

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@dotsonc They played ball the way it should always be played, they are my favorite surprise team in Reds history. And it proves that the whole regular season should mean something. All this wildcard bullshit is bogus, you have to win your division to go to the show.