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To: DUMBGRUNT
One of the most amazing stories of leadership and survival I have ever read.

They had a great exhibit in the Peabody-Essex Museum in Massachusetts that I got to see, they had one of the boats there.

Unbelievable story. What really roasted my bagel was when they said that they became uncomfortably warm trying to sleep when the temperature was about 28 degrees! (IIRC)

And sleeping on an ice floe that cracked and opened under them as they slept...just wow.

And the trip across Georgia Island...astonishing.


7 posted on 02/10/2019 7:16:48 PM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: rlmorel

They don’t make men like that anymore.


17 posted on 02/10/2019 8:39:09 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (FreeRepublic.com is the most-used app on my iPhone.)
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To: rlmorel

My recollection is they didn’t lose a single man. That is mind boggling.


27 posted on 02/11/2019 1:23:15 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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