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I knew I'd mess up the formatting, though I would not have guessed it would be like that.
CAN YOU REPEAT THAT THE CANNONS ARE REALLY LOUD
It works for me on voyager
I put line breaks in the alt text transcription and it repeated the image that many times for me on Summit. It's pretty silly.
I like it. Really hammers the point home
The youngest Medal of Honor recipient is William "Willie" Johnson, an 11 year old drummer from Vermont.
It was between June 25 and July 1, 1862 — dates known as the Seven Days Battles — that Willie earned his medal. These battles were part of Union Army Gen. George B. McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign, in which McClellan’s Army of the Potomac had tried to invade the Richmond, Virginia, area. But Confederate States Army Gen. Robert E. Lee’s troops drove them back, forcing the Union Army down the Virginia peninsula.
As the Union soldiers fled, many of them dropped their weapons and other equipment to lighten their loads as they retreated. This included the musicians.
When the troops finally got to safety, Willie was the only drummer in his division to get back with his drum in tow. As the men regrouped, Willie was recognized for that and was asked to play his drum for the whole division.
When President Abraham Lincoln heard about Willie’s bravery, he recommended the boy for the Medal of Honor, which had been created around the time of the Seven Days Battles.
Having a live band playing music during a battle was an actual thing back in the day.
OG bardic inspiration.
"oh hell yeah, this song slaps! Let's go bayonet some MFs!"
They should have had one kid with a bassoon.
It's probably hard to relate to 12-yo's actually fighting in a revolution if your idea of "debacle" is a Steam licensing issue.