Author: Gunner
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Today is a today of reflection and remembrance.
Today makes me sad. Reading about loved ones lost and lives shattered. 11 years ago today many of us were trying to wrap our heads around what had just occurred. We became a changed nation. There really isn’t anything that I can write here that hasn’t been said already by folks a lot better at…
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Meanwhile in the Low country
This is real f’ed up.
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“Gentlemen, we are being killed here on the beaches; let’s move inland and be killed there.”-unnamed Colonel with the First Infantry Division
68 years ago today over 100,000 Allied troops crossed the English channel and landed on French soil. This invasion was officially known as “Operation Overlord” we know it as D Day. Many of the men were trained here in Georgia. One of them was Richard Winters who lead a group of 13 men in overtaking a Nazi gun emplacement known…
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Could Rick Perry aid in the rise of a 3rd Party in Georgia?
I am sure that most of us laughed (I did), when we heard that not only did Rick Perry fail to qualify for the Virginia ballot but that he is suing to get on the ballot (I laughed at this as well). But then I started thinking, what if he won his day in court?…
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RIP Piccolo
When we think about the Civil Rights heroes of the 1960s most of us think about MLK, Rosa Parks, The Little Rock Nine and countless others. They are often said to have been “on the front lines” of the Movement. Yesterday, we lost a man who never left that front line. John Pierce simply known…
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The continuing education of ethics and honesty from GAGOP
Savannah attorney Gary Wisenbaker (R-Donor) pleaded guilty in Federal Court today because he ” defrauded his clients out of more than $50,000.” WJCL has the story here. He just ran for state house in Chatham County and lost. Republican governor Sonny appointed him to the Georgia Student Finance Commission . His term expires in 2014.…