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CPL Ben Roberts-Smith: Never Meet Your Heroes

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Maybe it’s the movies. We inexplicably expect life to be clean, tidy, and clear-cut. It just isn’t. It is so much easier to process the world around us when we fractionate people into all good or all bad.

Alec Baldwin: The Gun Control Advocate Who Shot and Killed a Woman

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Thursday, 21 October 2021, a handgun went off during the filming of the Alec Baldwin Western movie Rust. The cast and crew were rehearsing an upcoming scene inside a chapel used as a set for the film. The weapon was in Baldwin’s hands when it discharged.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

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It is difficult to appreciate the scope of World War 2. We modern folk simply have no frame of reference. It was death, tragedy, and destruction on a scale beyond our imagining.

Joe Medicine Crow: The Last American Indian War Chief

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Joe was raised, for the most part, by his maternal step-grandfather, a respected Indian warrior named White Man Runs Him or simply Yellowtail.

The Assassination of the Saudi King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud 

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Human beings just suck, like a lot. We have a long and illustrious history of venting our grievances against our leaders through the barrel of a gun

Thomas Richards: The Incredible Hulk

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I have reliable information that the Incredible Hulk is not technically real. Folks who are inadvertently exposed to massive doses of gamma radiation most typically have their hair fall out, puke up their entrails, and die.

3-Will-Tom Landry: A Hero From a Generation of Heroes

Tom Landry: A Hero From a Generation of Heroes

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While Landry was indeed a jock, he also enjoyed a brilliant analytical mind. Upon graduation from high school, he enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin studying industrial engineering. However, the vagaries of fate soon intervened.

The Legend of Baker Peak

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One of the best-kept secrets thereabouts is the Ouachita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. Comprising some 60,000 acres of rugged granite mountains, sweeping prairies, and freshwater lakes adjacent to Fort Sill to the north, the wildlife refuge was mesmerizing.

Human Nature, Assault Weapons, and the Massacre at Wounded Knee

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The 2nd Amendment never was about hunting or sport shooting. It was about the Massacre at Wounded Knee and John Snowling’s mini massacre.

Armin Faber’s Infamous Focke-Wulf

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In 1942, a Luftwaffe pilot named Armin Faber inadvertently and singlehandedly changed the calculus of the air war over Europe.