M.B. HENRY
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“I can stand in this wind, because I’m not trying to stand in it. The wind is just wind. You could withstand these gusts on the ground, so you can withstand them in the air. There is no difference. Except the difference you make in your head.”
– T. Westover, “Educated”

“When your mother and father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?”
– J.W.’s father’s answer to the loyalty question of who he wanted to win the war, “Farewell to Manzanar”

“I belong to a nation which cannot forget its past. We do not remember the past in order to brood over it, but in order that we may go on in the certainty that it will not repeat itself.”
– David Ben-Gurion

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A Ghost at Gettysburg: The 20th Maine’s Mysterious Encounter

The story of Joshua Chamberlain, the 20th Maine, and their heroic stand on Little Round Top is one of the most famous from the battle of Gettysburg.  While entire books have been written on the subject, a basic summary is this.  On the burning hot day of July 2, 1863, the second day of fighting between Lee and Meade at Gettysburg, the slopes outside of town dubbed “the Round Tops” came to… Read More

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AUTHOR/HISTORY ENTHUSIAST/PHOTOGRAPHER
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Today’s Book Recommendations
the Huntress
American Princess
Before Adam
Hunting Eichmann
Quotes of the Week

“I can stand in this wind, because I’m not trying to stand in it. The wind is just wind. You could withstand these gusts on the ground, so you can withstand them in the air. There is no difference. Except the difference you make in your head.”
– T. Westover, “Educated”

“When your mother and father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?”
– J.W.’s father’s answer to the loyalty question of who he wanted to win the war, “Farewell to Manzanar”

“I belong to a nation which cannot forget its past. We do not remember the past in order to brood over it, but in order that we may go on in the certainty that it will not repeat itself.”
– David Ben-Gurion

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