The Battle of Athens, Tennessee.
Here's another profile in courage (he was my father's first cousin): W. Horace Carter.
President Trump's farewell speech delivered at Andrews Air Force Base this morning. As far as I am concerned, the presidency is currently sede vacante.
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Another book we were assigned in high school was To Kill a Mockingbird.
It had a huge influence on us while we were young and saw all the MLK stuff on TV, the 1960s being when global TV news first went big time.
But increasingly I see the book as a dishonest fantasy, and pretty much feel it was part of a big lie we were sold. Things in the wider are so much more complex. Also, many of the wannabe Atticus Finchs turned out to be Elmer Gantry in reality. That's nothing new in history but we were naive enough to believe that this time it would be different.
I hate that book now.
'wider world' - I'm losing my faculties :-) Just in time to be a crazy old curmudgeon.
It's almost like deja vu, all over again.
YouTube appear to have scrubbed most of the videos about this, but there's one they missed.
The Battle of Athens.
I definitely want to see the movie based on the incident.
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