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[Vanity] We are rapidly approaching our moment of truth!
http://www.gonderzone.org/Library/Knights/crispen.htm ^ | 25 October 1415 | William S. A vanity, if I may?

Posted on 10/24/2016 7:04:15 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

We are rapidly approaching our moment of truth!

25 October, St Crispin's day, the day that King Henry V's adventures in France came to a head. Somewhat matches our current position.

Henry made more than a few mistakes along the way, but he did prevail! He won ugly, but he won.

The troops were cold, they were wet and they were sick with dysentery. They were gravely outnumbered.

Some claim to be conservatives, but they cannot support Trump? We know these sons of b****** , and every one of them belong to the B**** herself. “Hold their manhoods cheap “, yes Shakespeare knew them well!

On the morning of 25 October 1415, King Henry V inspires his troops to fight with him at the Battle of Angincort...

(Excerpt) Read more at gonderzone.org ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: stcrispinsday; webandofbrothers; wefew; wehappyfew
Please read at the link. Embarrassed to say that I cannot post the correct format,without HTML?

This is some of the best writing in the English language, and should be viewed in the proper format!

Not a pile of words!

As shown at the link.

http://www.gonderzone.org/Library/Knights/crispen.htm

1 posted on 10/24/2016 7:04:15 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

[Some claim to be conservatives, but they cannot support Trump? We know these sons of b****** , and every one of them belong to the B**** herself. “Hold their manhoods cheap “, yes Shakespeare knew them well!]

WHY EVERY CHRISTIAN SHOULD STAND UP AND VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP
http://constitution.com/every-christian-stand-vote-donald-trump/


2 posted on 10/24/2016 7:06:26 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Since you referenced Shakespeare...

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” Dick, Henry VI, Part II, Act 4, Scene 2 (harkening back to the practice of the English rebel Wat Tyler in 1381).

“Kill all the reporters first.” vladimir998, said in numerous places online starting around 2012 (giving spleen to his discontent with the lying mainstream media).


3 posted on 10/24/2016 7:06:39 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Enter the KING

WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work to-day!

KING. What's he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

4 posted on 10/24/2016 7:18:21 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: vladimir998
I'm pretty keen..with this...

“Kill all the reporters first.”

Or maybe send them to Haiti...to "find" themselves.

5 posted on 10/24/2016 7:25:09 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Cover up after cover up...OUR GOVERNMENT is OUT OF CONTROL)
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To: ScaniaBoy

Thank you!

Not sure the cause, everything was plain text.
I tried different sources?
Tried just a few lines?
Too lazy to place all the HTML line breaks.

Then, when it refused to return to the edit screen; I posted!

Just had a large system update, Something Torvalds did!

That the ticket, blame the box!!!


6 posted on 10/24/2016 7:49:11 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: ScaniaBoy

Pray that we wake up the day after the election and humbly realize the truth of those words: “And God fought . . . for us.”


7 posted on 10/24/2016 8:08:49 AM PDT by MrChips (Ad sapientiam pertinet aeternarum rerum cognitio intellectualis - St. Augustine)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Always curious about St. Crispin day,
From a scene in TOMBSTONE.
THANKS.


8 posted on 10/24/2016 8:10:07 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Big Red Badger

Found this:
The St Crispin’s day speech is recited by Billy Zane’s character, from Henry V. St Crispin’s day is on October 25. The gunfight at the OK Corral took place on October 26, just a few hundred years apart.


9 posted on 10/24/2016 9:00:22 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Billy Zane,,,
Remember “Dead Calm” ?

Anyways,,,
It is an interesting time in the
History of America.

May Our Revolution be won
at the Ballot Box !

On This, St. CRISPINS DAY!


10 posted on 10/24/2016 9:19:00 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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