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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Kristallnacht (1938)
In 1938, using the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris as a pretext, Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels urged violent reprisals against Jews. The resulting pogrom left 91 Jews dead and hundreds injured. Some 30,000 Jewish males were arrested and taken to concentration camps, and thousands of Jewish-owned businesses and synagogues were destroyed. The incident marked a major escalation in the Nazi program of Jewish persecution, foreshadowing the Holocaust.

If I remember correctly, the Berlin Wall came down on November 9,1989  (which just so happened to be my 33rd birthday!).  I do remember watching the news showing people climbing on the wall and others taking sledgehammers to it. 

Happy birthday!

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Henry Wirz Executed for War Crimes in American Civil War (1865)
In 1864, Wirz, a Confederate officer, became superintendent of Georgia's Andersonville prison, officially known as Camp Sumter. Providing only makeshift shelters, the prison confined tens of thousands of Union soldiers and became notorious for conditions so appalling that 13,000 of them died. Wirz was later convicted of conspiring to murder prisoners and hanged, becoming the only person executed for war crimes committed in the American Civil War.

SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there.

One of the guys went to my high school about 6-7 years ahead of me

May I ask what school?

I was at a car show and saw a '75 Charger that had been purchased new at a Dodge dealer in North Olmsted by a crewman. He died in the sinking and his parents had to retrieve the car from his parking spot at the dock in Toledo.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAY: 

George S. Patton, Jr. (1885)
Patton, nicknamed "Old Blood-and-Guts," was probably the most admired and most controversial American World War II general. Though he had a brilliant war record—he led successful military operations in Morocco and Sicily and spearheaded the spectacular sweep of US forces across northern France into Germany—he was a rigid disciplinarian and nearly lost his career for slapping a hospitalized soldier he suspected of feigning illness. In what event of the 1912 Olympics did Patton place fifth?

you get an early morning Yuengling!!! 

my selection sucks today

Bud fat and more Bud fat

but, it's dressed in RED and it's 
BIG RED GameDay, Baby!!!