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Somethings are amazing coincidences of history:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/histo...she-just-died/The check arrived every month: $73.13.
Irene Triplett, who lived in a North Carolina nursing home, rarely talked about the source of the money. She was the last American to receive a pension from the Civil War — $877.56 a year from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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Yeah, I saw that. Fascinating story. Her Dad was in his early 80s when she was born? Wow!
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
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She sure had a hard life.
My three favorite things are the Oxford comma, irony and missed opportunities
The problem with humanity is: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and God-like technology. Edward O. Wilson
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Hmm. Did you just use an Oxford semicolon Mike?
Rick Potter
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AKA Village Idiot.
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My great grandmother got a widowers civil war pension in the depression. It was about $50 back then. It may have been more then most since he had been a POW. My dad remembered it was not much money when she moved in with them after her husband died. But when the depression hit $50 a month was not too bad of an income.
Bill D
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my fourth favorite thing Rick.Originally Posted by Rick Potter
My three favorite things are the Oxford comma, irony and missed opportunities
The problem with humanity is: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and God-like technology. Edward O. Wilson
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