To: afraidfortherepublic
Evidently, in an arena where fractions of a second count, this was an exceptionally long duel. The kind of guts and stamina it would take to fight that long is incredible.
The gentleman that just died was from Clifton Forge, VA, a small rural town.
16 posted on
01/04/2014 9:26:55 AM PST by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: USNBandit
Clifton Forge was formerly a bustling railroad town. I was born at the C&O Hospital. Being raised “over the mountain,” having to bathe and put on my “good clothes” to go to the stores in C.F., I never thought of it as a “rural town.” ‘Course we only traveled to the big city of Roanoke a few times a year...
23 posted on
01/04/2014 9:47:03 AM PST by
lyby
("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
To: USNBandit
And then he had to fly back to England.
Fortunately we had almost complete air superiority over France by that time.
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