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« Reply #4984 on: June 01, 2025, 05:18:03 PM »
1973, Doc Tom's first as head coach

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« Reply #4985 on: June 01, 2025, 07:34:25 PM »
Pretty cool story I received this e-mail message from an old teacher friend of mine Arlys last week. Her son graduated with a degree in law enforcement was a state/county probation officer. He was promoted and doing very well. So she sent me this last Sunday before Memorial Day
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Hi, I just posted this on FB

It happened today

My son, Craig, was looking at the FB marketplace when he saw an item for sale that got his attention. Somebody was selling a WW II Purple Heart Medal.

His grandfather was a WWII veteran; he knew firsthand that the veterans from that war didn’t talk much about their time.

Craig took down the recipient's name and the hometown, a small town in Ky. With a little research, he discovered that the veteran received the medal while storming the beaches at Normandy. The hero returns to the small town and becomes a doctor there.

Craig looked for anyone with that last name on Facebook in that small town and sent messages to several people.

A woman responded with great excitement. That was her grandfather!

She contacted the seller, who is giving back the medal to the family. The family offered to give Craig a reward, which he refused. They are donating money in my son’s name to a Veterans organization.

I asked my son how this could happen. He is sure that when the man died, his family probably cleaned out his stuff and didn’t realize that the Purple Heart was among his belongings. This small-town, humble man had put it away in an old box and continued with his life.
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« Reply #4986 on: June 02, 2025, 12:07:16 AM »
Perhaps but you or I wouldn't have bet the ranch on the Silver & Gray after the Michigan Game,would we? And they ended up with the hardware but someone can always rise from the ashes like the Phoenix in the Bowl/Post season. They prolly would have been the favorites going in that season but as we've seen this past year nothings etched  in stone
Well, IMHO, Michigan was the second best team so tying them at their place wasn't a bad performance, it was actually quite impressive. 

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« Reply #4987 on: June 02, 2025, 11:51:28 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
US President Grover Cleveland Gets Married in the White House (1886)
Though President Cleveland entered the White House a notorious bachelor—having allegedly fathered a child out of wedlock—he did not remain single for long. Having become the executor of his deceased law partner's estate a decade earlier, Cleveland had supervised the upbringing of his partner's daughter, Frances. She visited him in the White House in 1885, and the two were married in the Blue Room a year later, making him the only president to be married there.
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« Reply #4988 on: June 02, 2025, 12:08:39 PM »
As of 2024, more than 330 people are known to have died on Mount Everest since climbers began attempting to reach its summit in the early 20th century. The death toll has steadily risen over the years, with common causes including avalanches, falls, extreme cold, altitude sickness, and sheer exhaustion!

Many of the bodies remain on the mountain, particularly above the “Death Zone” (8,000 meters or 26,247 feet), where the dangerously low oxygen levels make recovery missions extremely challenging and hazardous. Despite these dangers, Mount Everest continues to draw hundreds of climbers each year.


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« Reply #4989 on: June 02, 2025, 12:13:04 PM »
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer was a really interesting book.  Highly recommend for those that enjoy nonfiction.

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« Reply #4990 on: June 03, 2025, 06:23:24 AM »
1861 1st American Civil War land battle: Union forces defeat the Confederacy at Philippi in modern-day West Virginia

1864 General Robert E. Lee wins his last victory of the US Civil War at the Battle of Cold Harbor

1871 Jesse James & his gang robs Obocock Bank (Corydon Iowa), of $15,000

1876 Lacrosse introduced in Britain and Canada

1886 24 Christians burn to death in Namgongo, Uganda

1888 Baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" is first published by the San Francisco Examiner

1889 The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast

1925 Goodyear's first advertising airship, later named "Pilgrim" takes flight over Akron, Ohio; it is the first to fly using helium, and first to have an enclosed cabin 

1932 Future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Lou Gehrig first to hit 4 consecutive HRs in a MLB game; NY Yankees beat Philadelphia A's, 20-13 at Shibe Park

1932 John McGraw, who came to NY in 1902, resigns as manager of Giants

1939 "Beer Barrel Polka" by Will Glahe hits #1 on the pop singles chart

1955 Stan Musial hits his 300th HR

1972 "Hot Rod Lincoln" by Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9

1989 Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing

1989 Sportscasting legend Vin Scully broadcasts 23 innings in two different cities on one day

1995 Expos pitcher Pedro Martinez perfect game is broken up in 10th inning as San Diego's Bip Roberts leads off with a double, Mont wins 1-0

2019 US President Donald Trump begins a three-day visit to the UK by calling London Mayor Sadiq Khan "a stone cold loser" after Khan called Trump's language that of a 20th century fascist

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« Reply #4991 on: June 03, 2025, 08:04:20 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

"Casey at the Bat" Published in the San Francisco Examiner (1888)
"Casey at the Bat" was one of the most popular poems in late 19th-century America. Recited in vaudeville performances and later taken up by many celebrities, the poem tells the story of an overconfident baseball player—the "mighty Casey"—who strikes out while trying to show off. Ernest Thayer, who wrote the poem, avoided acknowledging authorship for many years because he thought it was embarrassingly bad.
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« Reply #4992 on: June 03, 2025, 08:39:30 AM »
This tiny aircraft is the Lockheed YO-3 Quiet Star. The YO-3A operated silently at 1,000 feet, or lower, depending on terrestrial background noise. Some pilots were known to have gone unobserved over the enemy at 200 feet. Occasionally, daylight flights were made over the rivers. Crew chiefs would monitor the YO-3A flying over the maintenance section prior to deployment, listening for rattles, whistles or other noises. The propeller, even at 500 feet over the maintenance area, made only a light flutter, heard just as it approached..

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« Reply #4993 on: June 03, 2025, 08:05:39 PM »
Former University of Michigan President Santa Ono rejected to lead University of Florida
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/santa-ono-rejected-for-university-of-florida-presidency/ 😜

Well that went smooth, think The Gator Operatives smelled a rat and a sinking ship???

Ono! Santa couldn't bluff his way off the naughty list. Bet he didn’t see that coming

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