Chris

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Chris

Chris

@kiche9787

conservative patriot, animal lover, ABSOLUTELY NO DM's. MAGA

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Chris@kiche9787·
@JMBudnack Looks like he would be a much better driver than the idiots i encounter on the road everyday! Cute pic
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Deny Rezoning of Plum Farms For Data Centers In Hoffman Estates - Sign the Petition! c.org/Lk8bXGzzYR via @Change
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Dogman
Dogman@Dogman1013·
I post photos of creatures from my forest in Northern Maine so people can escape, if only for a moment, from the delirious political theater on X. If you like my content, please consider sharing and following so others can find an escape as well. I do NOT get paid by X . I just truly love wildlife.
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Echoes of War
Echoes of War@EchoesofWarYT·
You use the word "navy" like it always existed. Joseph Hewes is one of the reasons it does, and almost nobody knows his name. Start here. He was a Quaker. Raised in a faith built on pacifism, on the belief that you do not take up arms, ever. Then he spent the most important year of his life building a war machine. Sit with that contradiction, because he had to. He was born in New Jersey in 1730, moved south, and became a shipping merchant in Wilmington, North Carolina. Smart, careful, rich. The kind of man who could have sat the whole revolution out behind a comfortable desk and a full bank account. He didn't. When the colonies needed warships, Congress handed the job to him. Hewes chaired the committee that fitted out the first ships of what became the United States Navy. He basically ran naval affairs out of his own head and his own merchant connections, ships, supplies, men, all of it. People have called him the father of the American Navy and they are not exaggerating. And here's the part that should be in every movie. There was a young, unknown, hot-tempered sailor nobody wanted to bet on. Hewes saw something in him and pushed through his commission. That sailor was John Paul Jones. The guy who, when his ship was shot to pieces and he was asked to surrender, supposedly roared "I have not yet begun to fight." None of that legend happens without Hewes opening the door. He paid for all of it with his body. He worked himself into the ground, skipping meals, skipping sleep, grinding through committee after committee while his health fell apart. There's a quieter heartbreak too. Years earlier he had been engaged to a woman named Isabella. She died before they could marry. He never married anyone. He poured everything he had left into the country instead. He collapsed into illness and died in November 1779, still in Philadelphia, still at his post. He was the only signer of the Declaration to die at the seat of government, basically dying on the job he refused to walk away from. A pacifist who built a navy. A rich man who spent himself to nothing. A bachelor who gave a country what he never got to give a family. Joseph Hewes. Say his name.
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