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Putnam and Greene: both great.
1 posted on 05/14/2007 8:11:34 PM PDT by Pharmboy
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To: indcons; Chani; thefactor; blam; aculeus; ELS; Doctor Raoul; mainepatsfan; timpad; ...

Sunset over the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument in Ft Greene Park, Brooklyn, NY

More than 10,000 patriots died in these floating hellholes: more died here than on all the battlefields of the Revolution combined.

Their bones remain.

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2 posted on 05/14/2007 8:21:13 PM PDT by Pharmboy ([She turned me into a] Newt! in '08)
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5 posted on 05/14/2007 9:33:30 PM PDT by rmlew (It's WW4 and the Left wants to negotiate with Islamists who want to kill us , for their mutual ends)
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Thanks for the memories...used to train in Ft. Greene Park with the Brooklyn Technical High School track team...


7 posted on 05/15/2007 1:37:36 AM PDT by pookie18 ([Hillary Rotten] Clinton Happens...as does Dr. Demento Dean, Bela Pelosi & Benedick Durbin!!)
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Thanks for the article. Names of 8,000 men and women who were prisoners on the New Jersey hulk are on the Merchant Marine web site.
11 posted on 05/15/2007 6:52:07 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Greene greater.

Unless you’re talking about the forts!


14 posted on 05/15/2007 7:56:28 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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This is perfect timing. Thank you!

I'm reading a biography of Greene: Washington's General, and enjoying it very much.

Greene sacrificed much for his country. May he long be remembered!

17 posted on 05/16/2007 5:27:12 AM PDT by Molly Pitcher (We are Americans...the sons and daughters of liberty...*.from FReeper the Real fifi*))
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