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My better angels want crew-served weapons. I write about USMC 1866-1917 “The Marines Have Landed At Nantucket…” Marine Corps Gazette, May 2025 History blog: https://islandjohnny65.blogspot.com GO BIG RED

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · Jan 24

Our times…

Consequently, it followed logically that telling lies and defecting from duty could not be sins. The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
Joseph Heller

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 3h

"We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things."
-Stephen Hawking

💜🌟💜🌞💜

wildflowers and flowers with a few trees in the background.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 3h

Happy for Brian Daboll.

For now.

Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you.

Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 5h

No doubt.

I get tired driving it on the Thruway.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 5h

I think they could travel by boat from NYC to Utica, then it was either boat to Oswego and hike from Niagara to Buffalo, or march from Utica to Buffalo.

There was so much marching from Sackett's Harbor (Fort Drum today) to Fort Niagara and back during the war, it was insane.

Winter and summer.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 5h

OTD 1812. Niagara River cont'd.

Both sides attempt to control the two vessels, exchanging fire all day long. DETROIT is cut adrift, and sinks off Tonawanda.

Elliot's force captured CALEDONIA, weapons and pelts, for the cost of two men.

More here:
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CUTTING OUT ON THE NIAGARA OCTOBER 1812

CUTTING OUT ON THE NIAGARA RIVER OCTOBER 1812 The enemy is making every exertion to gain a naval Superiority on both Lakes which if they...

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 5h

OTD 1812. Niagara River.

Caught by the current, Elliot attempts to land DETROIT and CALEDONIA at Black Rock, all the while under fire of the British batteries at Fort Erie.

LtCol Winfield Scott's artillery provides counter battery fire from Squaw Island and Black Rock.
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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 6h

Elliot's raiding force boarded the British vessels, HMS DETROIT and HMS CALEDONIA, rescuing American prisoners taken at Detroit, and capturing RN sailors.

As Elliot made for the lake, the British began firing on the purloined vessels which were hampered by a lack of wind.
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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 6h

OTD 1812. Buffalo Creek, cont'd.
At 0100 Lt Jesse Elliot and his raiding party begin paddling across the swift waters of the mouth of the Niagara to "cut out" two British ships full of cargo bound for Lower Canada and London.

They're in small flat-bottomed lake craft called bateaux.
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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 6h

An all time feels song.

Gets me every time.

Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 9h

Dim memories tell me that the rubberized floor cover, door cards, and bench seats were all a shade of brown. (GM shade)

IIRC, the dash would have been that same color, but exposed metal interior surfaces behind the seats, and inside the doors were CARC green.

Hope this helps/isn’t too late.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 9h

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”

- James Baldwin

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 14h

Sometimes, the best that you can do is the best that can be done.

Then you make ramen.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 14h

“A ruler that has but an army has one hand, but he who has a navy has both.”

A quote attributed to Peter the Great. On this day in 1708, he led Russian forces to victory against the Swedish army at the Battle of Lesnaya.

From War on the Rocks…

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 11h

I was genuinely surprised that a loyalty oath wasn’t test-run during the speech.

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Bring a Trailer @bringatrailer.bsky.social · Aug 15

Original-Owner 1987 Buick Grand National

Bid for the chance to own a Original-Owner 1987 Buick Grand National at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #206,085.

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 15h

“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it.”

- Hunter S. Thompson

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Hupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 17h

You don’t really know your cat loves you until she’s standing with her full weight on her bony feet on top of your pacemaker, and extends her claws to start making biscuits.

A real wake-up.