James MacDonald

CDR, USCG (Ret.) Master, US Merchant Marine (Ret.) Resident, Upper Left Coast. Views & opinions are personal.

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@EchoesofWarYT You neglect to point out the most important part of Lee’s legacy: He lost the Civil War for the Confederacy.

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@EchoesofWarYT The last fight for Morgan and these two dead Confederate soldiers. One unknown and Private John Miller. Buried almost exactly where they fell, West Grove Cemetery, Brush Creek Township, Jefferson County Ohio.

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@BarnabyHistory In a hundred years - or fewer - that inscription will be illegible due to limestone erosion. Already, many limestone inscriptions in that area are unreadable. @AdamNathanielH1

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@mercoglianos Envious. Second @twolmo on “Longitude”. Also “The Ships Chronometer” by Marvin Whitney.

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@GunWashington 😎

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@Combat_learjet (Yes, I swiped this…)

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@justice_Tyr22 @TheRickWilson @MalcolmNance Know little about minesweeping, but “Liked” if only for the masterfully colorful comment 🤣 Bravo Zulu!

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@airmainengineer Cool! And they did it without a GPU attached, too… 😒

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A sailor ought to be close to the sea. Governors Island, as a USCG training center, was in the middle of New York harbor. Avery Point was on the Connecticut coast. Alameda, as a training center, was in the middle of the Oakland Estuary, a tributary of San Francisco Bay. Yorktown likewise on a tributary of Chesapeake Bay. And even Petaluma is just over the hill from Bodega Bay. But Birmingham… Birmingham is *180 nautical miles* from the nearest salt water!

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@justice_Tyr22 I just gave away my similar Craftsman that I’ve used for innumerable projects over nearly a half century. Good stuff indeed.

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Needs a new table and fence; use Baltic plywood if possible. Motor should be capable of 240V via jumpers; if so, do it. Ditch that midget blade, but keep and use the convex/flat washers under the arbor nuts. Hope yours takes min 12in. Keep blade square with table and arm axis; when ripping use the anti-kickback pawls…etc etc

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@pe91706 @NuryVittachi Give it up 👏 for the red seat!

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@PNWConservative @AdamsUnchained To think I used to commute to work down Holgate…

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@justice_Tyr22 … with a Civil War era cap and ball revolver…

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@joshbottweet @MarioNawfal No, bad approach by receiving ship; got sucked in by oiler’s wake

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@MarioNawfal Suck in by wake fraction; conn didn’t compensate

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@miami_rick
In June 1969, my ship, recently returned from Vietnam deployment, was moored to the face of Pier 91 in Elliott Bay, Seattle. Then - as now - the southbound approach to Boeing Field (BFI) was almost directly over Pier 91. The prototype 747 was doing almost constant touch and gos. I recall distinctly standing on deck, looking up at the big 747 passing less than 2000 ft overhead, marveling at all those landing gear wheels. The realization that it was the largest airplane the world had ever seen was, and is, unforgettable.

Today we can visit that exact same airplane at the Museum Of Flight, near Boeing Field in Seattle.

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@wspd7pio Thanks, Troopers, for everything you do for us.

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@airlinevideos @InfantryPilot

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@justice_Tyr22 👍🏻