The winner gets to write the history

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The truth can be known if you break out of your MSDNC rut.

Albeit the truth as written by paleolibs.

One of my favorite places in the whole wide world is the gubment archive of newspapers called Chronicling America.

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I often use it for inspiration for my other endeavors…and yep, MrOT has a life outside of this torrid tome. The possibilities are ENDLESS.

Would you like to chase down the genesis of progressiveism? See how early conservatives used to do their thing?

How about learning first hand all about the great solar storm EMP of 1859? View restaurant menus from 1895?

There is a college master education going begging for the intelligent pol watcher…bird watcher…sociologist.

And it’s all el freebo. But it ain’t regurgitated nor twitterized. You have to dig for it. And it’s all there from 1789 to 1963, free for the taking and non-copyrighted.

Oh but that I could get paid to RESEARCH! Many many many lifetimes of material to be sifted, weighed, studied and indexed.

This is a resource where you can see how your programming was programmed. And not a single lick of it photoshopped, erased, or re-written.

If you have a few minutes or a lifetime I’d urge you to go spend some time on Chronicling America. There’s validation for your crockamamie viewpoints aplenty…and you’ll learn that there is really nothing new under the sun.

The people who wrote what they wrote are for the most part dead…most long long dead. And we have the upper hand. While they opinionated about what they thought was coming we have the upper hand bekez we know what really came.

There were Hannity forums galore way back then. All you gotta do is go look for them. They were called, “Letters To The Editor.”

Or maybe you’d like to search for embalmed whale exhibits on steam trains. Fact is whatever you’re looking for you’re going to be impressed with the fact that dead people were very smart oft times.

It’s the history they never taught you and you never learnt in school. And if you’re smart, you can use that history to look into your future.

If I was you, I’d go have a look…and mebbe bookmark it.

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Hey I know what you mean about getting paid to research. When I was young I loved perusing old newspaper and magazine archives where ever I could find them. I still go into archives online when I run across them. But they might have the information down but they just don’t have the smell, the look, the feel of the real thing.

In fact I was into a new newspaper source a week or so ago where I discovered some juicy tidbits about my biological father that I was not aware of before. My mother hated his guts so much she never told me anything about him or his family, and he died when I was 18, after leaving when I was only about 3 years old. He had been absent until a short time before his end, only saw him once then for a few minutes, so I never got a chance to find out anything from him about him.

I knew he had been in the Korean War, but I discovered, via those archives, that he had also served in World War II. Unfortunately he had a drinking problem, part of what he died from as he was a raging alcoholic, and he had multiple drunk driving incidents that showed up in the local papers near my home town.

Alcohol use and abuse is fortunately one trait he did not pass on to me.

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Sorry about everything you went through learning about your dad. Unfortunately alcoholism isn’t a rare condition for men who have gone through multiple deployments in war zones. As a 20 year Army vet who spent 3 1/2 years in Iraq, I’d gently advise not to hold it against him. You have no idea what he did and saw

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Oh wow…I just found reference to a man having an altercation with his landlord in a part of Illinois where my dad’s family lived. It might even be his grand father that the article is about, from 1870.

Interesting as all get out.

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Thanks!

His military service is one thing I have nothing but praise and admiration for.

He was not a good father.

Yet he was a hero to our nation and in turn to me for that service, especially since he was an enlistee and was not drafted.

I tried to enlist but was denied because I was born with clubbed feet and messed up hammer toes and unusually high arches.

I had hoped to get into armor. That was where he was, in a tank crew. What little that was passed down from family members was that he was a Sherman tank crewman. Supposedly one of the horrid things he witnessed was a fellow crew mate being decapitated by an enemy shell.

I regret not getting a chance to know him.

He is interred in Jefferson Barracks Cemetery in Missouri.

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What a fantastic comment Mx. C! Our parents were not our friends. They were our parents and grown folks biz was not discussed with the kids. Yep. I’m really glad you were able to add to your understanding. Gosh.

And as a teen I used to hang out at the liberry sometimes reading through old copies of the local rag on microfilm. Had all the fun doing it. So imagine in my old age how much fun I have fooling with the stock of old papers on Chron America.

Jes kinda wanted to give that as a gift to others.

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