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Sept 19, 2023

Today’s Food for Thought:

Having rests on giving, and not on receiving.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

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This Day in Military History

May 29, 1781: In a battle with the British ships Atalanta and Trepassey off Newfoundland, John Barry, U.S. commander on Alliance, was injured by shrapnel and taken below to have his wounds dressed while the Alliance was dangerously battered. When his second in command asked permission to strike colors, Barry angrily ordered to be carried on deck to resume the fight—which the Americans won.

“No, Sir, the thunder! If this ship cannot be fought without me, I will be brought on deck; to your duty, Sir.” – John Barry

Brandus, Paul. This Day in U.S. Military History (p. 135). Bernan Press. Kindle Edition.