OT: War of 1812 (UNCLASSIFIED)

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu May 27 20:42:46 UTC 2010


Quite so! And he had only begun to fight.

-Wilson

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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>> Was it Farragut and
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>> "We have not yet begun to fight!"
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>> ?
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>> Considering how things worked out, there's definitely a grain of truth
>> in that saying.=: did we ever beginn to fight?
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>> -Wilson
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> Andy Jackson sure did.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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