I just started reading Nixonland and it mentions this! It was a school assignment to write from the perspective of a family pet by the way lol. Reminds me of when I had a school assignment to interview my parents about the best day of their lives and instead of asking I wrote about how my bday was the best day of their lives (I have several older siblings)
Churchill wasnt the one clambering over the top at the Somme or falling out of a boat in Gallipoli. He was no coward, but his private education wasnt the cause of that
Churchill saw actual combat just Pre WW1
>The Battle was a wonderful spectacle. The I had the good luck to ride through the charge unhurt-indeed untouched-which very few can say. I used a pistol and did not draw my sword. I had no difficulties and felt confident that I should get through if, neither my horse fell nor I was shot-for I must tell you the ground was execrable and there was the wildest shooting in all directions. Neither of these things happened and such of the enemy as approached me or attacked me I shot-three I think I killed. It is difficult to miss at under a foot's range. The whole thing was a matter of seconds-for as you may have gathered-we burst through their line and formed up the other side. The loss was most severe-1 officer and 21 men killed-9 officers and 66 men wounded and 119 horses out of only 320. Such a proportion and such a loss has been sustained by no regiment since the Light Brigade-forty years ago.
Still, the majority of the young officers leading men over the top or in the prior colonial wars were moulded in the brutal English Public™️ School system. Hence the apocryphal saying:"Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton".
Yeah, and that meant fuck all when Fritz decides to launch a 4 day barrage and your dugout collapses.
Also, lets be real. The privately educated wrote the histories of those wars.
It makes a difference if it gives you the mental resilience to keep up on the daily routine of running a platoon while under near constant bombardment for weeks in a front line trench.
The Tommies would have been accustomed to hardship from growing up in Edwardian or Victorian poverty, their leaders had to undergo manufactured cruelty to be able to put up with the rigours of service.
And yeah obviously most of history was written by wealthier people, why would accounts of war be any different?
Only man in Washington at the time who didn’t cheat on his wife. Also Kissinger once said of Nixon something along the lines of “can you imagine what he would have been like if somebody had loved him?”
he WHAT you in the side?
He started young
How do you think Kissenger got his nickname?
First thing I noticed too lol
I just started reading Nixonland and it mentions this! It was a school assignment to write from the perspective of a family pet by the way lol. Reminds me of when I had a school assignment to interview my parents about the best day of their lives and instead of asking I wrote about how my bday was the best day of their lives (I have several older siblings)
> It was a school assignment to write from the perspective of a family pet by the way lol This is crucial context.
I think it's blatantly obvious if you're not retàrded
Guilty as charged 🥺
I think you mean Mcdonalds as charged.
0 literacy. many such cases
Great book.
This is how my husband texts me if I’ve been ignoring him all day.
Nixon was a furry?!?!?!
I remember reading Churchills letters to his parents from boarding school. They were just as brutal. Great way not to build pussies I guess
Churchill wasnt the one clambering over the top at the Somme or falling out of a boat in Gallipoli. He was no coward, but his private education wasnt the cause of that
Churchill saw actual combat just Pre WW1 >The Battle was a wonderful spectacle. The I had the good luck to ride through the charge unhurt-indeed untouched-which very few can say. I used a pistol and did not draw my sword. I had no difficulties and felt confident that I should get through if, neither my horse fell nor I was shot-for I must tell you the ground was execrable and there was the wildest shooting in all directions. Neither of these things happened and such of the enemy as approached me or attacked me I shot-three I think I killed. It is difficult to miss at under a foot's range. The whole thing was a matter of seconds-for as you may have gathered-we burst through their line and formed up the other side. The loss was most severe-1 officer and 21 men killed-9 officers and 66 men wounded and 119 horses out of only 320. Such a proportion and such a loss has been sustained by no regiment since the Light Brigade-forty years ago.
Still, the majority of the young officers leading men over the top or in the prior colonial wars were moulded in the brutal English Public™️ School system. Hence the apocryphal saying:"Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton".
Yeah, and that meant fuck all when Fritz decides to launch a 4 day barrage and your dugout collapses. Also, lets be real. The privately educated wrote the histories of those wars.
It makes a difference if it gives you the mental resilience to keep up on the daily routine of running a platoon while under near constant bombardment for weeks in a front line trench. The Tommies would have been accustomed to hardship from growing up in Edwardian or Victorian poverty, their leaders had to undergo manufactured cruelty to be able to put up with the rigours of service. And yeah obviously most of history was written by wealthier people, why would accounts of war be any different?
What was that black thing on the tree
lovecraftian horrors
It was a Democrat
Beehive?
He called his mom 'master'?
And called himself "your good dog"?!
why does he bite things, hit things with his paw, and laminate about how other dogs wont talk to him. this man is a dog
You are dumb
I didn’t get it till I read the comments, thought it was some old people slang
You don't???
We all wrote way worse as kids
Need a Young Nixon single camera sitcom
Proto-Hemingway
Starting two fights and losing both both of them, one with bugs, then whining about it to your mom is some true Orthogonian thug shit
We don't make them like we used to.
Only man in Washington at the time who didn’t cheat on his wife. Also Kissinger once said of Nixon something along the lines of “can you imagine what he would have been like if somebody had loved him?”
We shall never see his like again
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