I thought it was the liquor that got that war criminal Grant! lol Are ye a War Hawk, too?
That rascal Grant died from throat and mouth cancer just as he finished his memoirs which enriched his otherwise poverty stricken family. I think he was living on the east bank of the Hudson north of NYC at the time. He was known to smoke 15-20 stogies a day ...much like Twain. Of course Winston smoked the same amount and lived to 94 so who knows. BTW, Lee smoked a fair amount of stogies and the occasional pipe and died of cardiac disease in his early to mid 60s(?)....so who knows?
I suppose I am quite Hawkish when it is merited. I'm a right wing Southern Christian conservative to the near extreme. I don't imagine that takes much elaborating does it?
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