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Chris Dawson
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Avid reader of history, WHW Independent Company, Attorney, former organic farmer, journalist, laborer, painter and job skills trainer of at-risk youth. Interests: WW2, American frontier, military history, NUFC. Live in Maine with wife and sons.
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Just finished Douglas Porch's brilliant first volume of his two book France at War series. Next up is his 2nd volume Resistance and Liberation: France at War 1942-1945. To learn more see this review: networks.h-net.org/group/review...
Defeat and Division: France at War, 1039-1942 by Douglas Porch
April 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Charles Rogers has been whitewashed off the DOD website because of abhorrent incels who fear their own insignificance. Please, share his face & his Medal of Honour citation far & wide. My substack tomorrow will be on minorities and women who have won it because I’m furious achurchill.substack.com
Charles Rogers has been whitewashed off the DOD website by abhorrent incels who fear their own insignificance. Please, share his face & his Medal of Honour citation far & wide. My substack tomorrow will be dedicated to minorities and women who have won it because I’m furious https://achurchill.substack.com Image and citation from Wikipedia. Citation reads: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Lt. Col. Rogers, Field Artillery, distinguished himself in action while serving as commanding officer, 1st Battalion, during the defense of a forward fire support base. In the early morning hours, the fire support base was subjected to a concentrated bombardment of heavy mortar, rocket and rocket propelled grenade fire. Simultaneously the position was struck by a human wave ground assault, led by sappers who breached the defensive barriers with bangalore torpedoes and penetrated the defensive perimeter. Lt. Col. Rogers with complete disregard for his safety moved through the hail of fragments from bursting enemy rounds to the embattled area. He aggressively rallied the dazed artillery crewmen to man their howitzers and he directed their fire on the assaulting enemy. Although knocked to the ground and wounded (continued on next image) by an exploding round, Lt. Col. Rogers sprang to his feet and led a small counterattack force against an enemy element that had penetrated the howitzer positions. Although painfully wounded a second time during the assault, Lt. Col. Rogers pressed the attack killing several of the enemy and driving the remainder from the positions. Refusing medical treatment, Lt. Col. Rogers reestablished and reinforced the defensive positions. As a second human wave attack was launched against another sector of the perimeter, Lt. Col. Rogers directed artillery fire on the assaulting enemy and led a second counterattack against the charging forces. His valorous example rallied the beleaguered defenders to repulse and defeat the enemy onslaught. Lt. Col. Rogers moved from position to position through the heavy enemy fire, giving encouragement and direction to his men. At dawn the determined enemy launched a third assault against the (continued on next image) fire base in an attempt to overrun the position. Lt. Col. Rogers moved to the threatened area and directed lethal fire on the enemy forces. Seeing a howitzer inoperative due to casualties, Lt. Col. Rogers joined the surviving members of the crew to return the howitzer to action. While directing the position defense, Lt. Col. Rogers was seriously wounded by fragments from a heavy mortar round which exploded on the parapet of the gun position. Although too severely wounded to physically lead the defenders, Lt. Col. Rogers continued to give encouragement and direction to his men in the defeating and repelling of the enemy attack. Lt. Col. Rogers' dauntless courage and heroism inspired the defenders of the fire support base to the heights of valor to defeat a determined and numerically superior enemy force. His relentless spirit of aggressiveness in action are in the highest traditions of the military service and reflects great credit upon himself. his unit. and the U.S. Army.
March 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Based on my experience working as a Court appointed attorney for low-income people, I can't help but to agree with this.
www.pressherald.com/2025/02/21/o...
Opinion: The RFK Jr. strategy for battling obesity is flawed
For many Americans, day-to-day survival comes before diet and lifestyle considerations. Kale is off the table.
www.pressherald.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy
The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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European Parliament member 👇🏽
February 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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This picture of April 2022 will haunt me forever.

New sneakers, blue snowsuit, this 2yo was very loved. His mother tried to bring him to safety, but russians shot their car w/ a heavy machine gun. The entire family gone.

How come in 2022 this crime outraged everyone while in 2025 doesn't anymore?
February 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Massively shocking and dishonourable American behaviour in its proposal to Kyiv of 7 February:

Telegraph: "If this draft were accepted, Trump’s demands would amount to a higher share of Ukrainian GDP than reparations imposed on Germany at the Versailles Treaty"

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Revealed: Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold
Panic in Kyiv as US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s First World War reparations
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM