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@SalinaBBaker @AmRevResurrect AudiobookIng it right this very minute.

Joseph Plumb Martin wrote and published his memoirs in 1830 at the age of 70. The book was lost to history, rediscover in the 1950’s, and published again in 1962. Like many memoirs, he may have embellished it, but it’s rooted in the experiences endured by the common soldier instead of the heroic accounts of men like Washington, Greene, and Knox. Nevertheless, this is an eye opening tale of suffering, endurance, and patriotism. Joseph was born in Massachusetts on November 21, 1760, therefore he was just a teenager when he joined the army in 1776. At the time, he lived with his grandparents in Connecticut and had difficulty gaining their permission to enlist. He and his company were soon sent to New York where they saw action at Long Island, Kip’s Bay, Harlem Heights, and White Plains. Later in the war, he was at Germantown, the siege of Fort Mifflin, and the Battle of Monmouth. His company was shipped off to the Hudson Highlands and West Point. He spoke of Benedict Arnold’s treason and John Andre’s execution. He was with the unit of sappers at Yorktown who dug the parallel entrenchments used to besiege Cornwallis’ army. In his memoir, Joseph paints a picture of camaraderie between he and his “messmates.” Their shared struggles with constant starvation, nakedness, lack of shelter, sickness, fatigue, and hard duty is a theme throughout. “To have to lie, as I did, almost every other night on the cold and often wet ground… without a blanket, and with nothing but thin summer clothing, was tedious.” “The army was now (Valley Forge) not only starved but naked; the greatest part were not only shirtless and barefoot, but destitute of all other clothing, especially blankets.” “…I have often been so beat out with long and tedious marching, that I have fallen asleep while walking the road, and not been sensible of it till I have jostled against some one in the same situation;…” He candidly wrote about the officers who made bad decisions, quartered in homes and ate well — “for they must have victuals, let the poor men fare as they would.” His detailed descriptions of the army’s failure to provide pay and provisions, his food foraging expeditions, and food sometimes provided to the soldiers by civilians underlies the desperation he experienced enduring starvation. Yet amid all these descriptions of misery, Joseph demonstrates a sense of humor, compassion, courage, mischief, and admiration for “handsome ladies.” He refers to those who are killed or dies as “Poor young man!” or “Poor fellow!” When his regiment returns to White Plains, he sees that the Hessians who died at the battle there the year before are ill-buried and he feels sorry for them. “Here the Hessian sculls as thick as a bomb shells; — poor fellows! they were left unburied in a foreign land…” When the war ended in 1783, he wrote that the happiness he had anticipated was not realized. “….there was as much sorrow as joy transfused on the occasion. We lived together as a family of brothers for several years (setting aside some little family squabbles, like most other families,) had shared with each other the hardships, dangers and sufferings incident to a soldier’s life…” He concludes with after the war the soldiers were never given the land they were promised nor their yearly clothing allowance. But the heart rending message was how the country vilified them — the army was idle during the war or the militia could have done the job. The soldiers’ hardships were debased and underrated. “President Monroe was the first of all our Presidents, except President Washington, who ever uttered a syllable in the ‘old soldiers’ favor.” Of the voices of slander, he wrote: “It was very easy for them to build castles in the air, but they had not felt the difficulty of making them stand there.” “And now, kind Reader, I bid you a cordial and long farewell.” ~~ Joseph Plumb Martin Joseph Plumb Martin died on May 2, 1850 at the age of 89. He passed away in Prospect, Maine.

Excerpt from 2002 documentary “The Loss of the Liberty” When Israel attempted to sink the USS Liberty. youtu.be/nLPWUpS_D2w?si…

@CntQuilla Yikes.

Looks badass for the moment… but imagine explaining all that at 60

@madcowz719 @link_1234_ My goal is to become the sand.

@link_1234_ My goal....is to become the Rake guy in the pit after jumps.

The jump ends… the marks don’t.

@PatriotJeremy14 @NancyMace Bought her flat ass cheap.

@NancyMace I pray you both stop taking money from the synagogue of Satan

Pray for President Trump.

@SageAmenti @emmanuelfelton Whatever’s been tried the past 30+ years in Memphis, it ain’t working.

Memphis has long suffered the inequities of being a largely black city. We always get the short end of the stick when it comes to funds from the state. The White Republican legislators in Nashville are always in Memphis' business, trying to tell us what to do with our own affairs. They interferred when we started getting rid of some of the many Confederate symbols and monuments throughout the city. The give us short shrift when it comes to funds to improve our quality of living, our roads and highways, our parks, our schools and colleges, and funds to eliminate environmental issues. Now they're trying to take over our city schools. Can you imagine that? Black children's education being put in the hands of racist Republicans?

Memphis is the second Blackest big city in the country, and it’s about to be gerrymandered within an inch of its life so a white Republican can represent it in Congress. This was exactly the thing Congress was trying to address with the Voting Rights Act. tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/01/gov…

@CSUNSHINE Yeah, but American tax dollars don’t go to Americans, silly.

Spirit Airlines only needed $500 million to survive. We’ve already spent $25 billion on the Iran War. Which one directly improves American lives more? A low-cost carrier staying in the market or another war in the Middle East?

@AJ_chpriv @ChronosIntelX @CuriosityonX And In 1751, a young George accompanied his half-brother, Lawrence to Barbados where he contracted smallpox as a younger fella and didn’t have to worry about it when the Rev War happened.

@ChronosIntelX @CuriosityonX Well he understood diseases a bit given he basically won the revolutionary war by forcing the troops to get inoculated when most didn't understand it.

George Washington died in 1799. The first dinosaur fossil was discovered in 1864. George Washington never knew dinosaurs existed

During s£x the average men last 2.5minutes 😱😱 so what exactly are some of you doing for the other 27? 🤔”

@ProfDoRight @Classicbritcom 😂

@Classicbritcom Did they mention Fred's White Privilege. That's what opened doors for him. Got him up the ladder, so to speak.

Several years back, I embarked on a journey to Bolton in order to celebrate the life and legacy of Fred Dibnah. Here, I share a glimpse of my pilgrimage experience.

@DaReMo79 @cptdankkk Right. He’s kinda not mentioning he’d already made tens of millions of dollars doing the rom-coms. Lol so brave.

@cptdankkk How nice would it be to stop working for 20 months and not care because you are already a millionaire

Matthew McConaughey reveals he stepped away from Hollywood and went 20 months without work before The Lincoln Lawyer and True Detective "I want to do dramas, but they won't offer me one no matter how big of a pay cut I take. All right, if I can't do what I want to do, I'm going to quit doing what I've been doing and told my agent no more romcoms" "I think me saying no to that $14.5 million offer a year into me leaving, sent a message to Hollywood that McConaughey is not bluffing. He's not for rent"

@7NewsDC Building himself a Kowloon Walled city.

The Fairfax County Board of Zoning on Wednesday rejected an attempt by the owner of a home to finish building a three-story extension without making changes. #wjla #fairfaxcounty #greenbriar #familyhome #virginia

@Nibiru1000 Marching on a gas station. Lol

Black folks ain’t playing with these foreigners anymore ✊🏾 Folks in Houston stood on Business and shut down a gas station run by immigrants after they forced a boy outside to use the bathroom and recorded it.

@UnityNewsNet You know they wipe his ass too. It’s pathetic, and people actually like this damn bum.

This guy has his toothpaste squeezed out for him in the morning and the media is hailing him as an 'expert' on geo-politics. Farcical.

@TheEXECUTlONER_ These little shyster dirtbags.

This guy here is walking us through how he does an estimate to mow and weed eat this yard. Pretty straight forward. He is quoting this house at $75 a week to do the yard, so $300 a month, once a week. But, he says if it rains, even if it rains for weeks and they can’t mow, they are getting paid their $75 and if the customer doesn’t like it, they don’t need that customer. Is that the standard in the industry if you are on a weekly schedule with a lawn care company? Are you paying $75 even if they don’t do your yard?

@A_Sannikov Fuck him. This child living off the taxpayers.

King Charles III during his visit to the US renewed my belief in human dignity, human intelligence, and the English language. Long live the King!

@AFellaNamedGus @Chet_Cannon @FLOTUS He definitely hit it.

@Chet_Cannon @FLOTUS Who gives a fuck? She's a hooker who lied to get citizenship. Enough said.

Prettiest First Lady ever and it’s not even close. It’s honestly laughable thinking about the countless magazine covers & articles fawning over the “style and beauty” of Jill Biden, Michelle Obama, and Hillary Clinton—lol—as if we don’t have eyes. God bless our stunning @FLOTUS

Still can't believe this article is real

@SoveyX You’re just now discovering this?

Quentin Tarantino stole everything.