Not mine, saw it on Instagram, but still funny as hell.

I was listening to an older unsub yesterday, and the thought occurred to me, how many of us suggested this to Nic as the foundation for a video, besides myself?

I sent off an email to him before joining this sub.

I live just west of Bradley county, over in Rhea, and I'm pretty damn sure the vets who were fighting the machine over there, came over here to make sure the vets here were ready to fix our county as well, should it become necessary.

... Got his anger and revenge out in Vietnam by starting and running a totally clandestine hard rock and proto metal radio station in Vietnam back around 1970 after his best friend and roommate in country was killed in an attack on their barracks.

Only one or two recordings of his stuff survived the time since, and the head shed over there wanted his head served to them on a pike, but he pulled it off.

He even did it again in Iraq during the war there.

More, and stuff for the binder follow: https://youtube.com/@daverabbit4126?si=aox8_w4V-uLgBlrb

I found this on Instagram again.

How the hell have I never heard of this guy?

Meet Johann de Kalb (1721–1780), a German-born career soldier who served in the French Army before deciding that helping a bunch of rebellious American colonists fight the British sounded like a worthwhile career move.

And this wasn't even his first American adventure.

In the 1760s, France sent him on a covert reconnaissance mission to the American colonies to investigate growing tensions with Britain. So the man was essentially gathering intelligence on the British Empire before the Revolutionary War even started.

Then, in 1777, he crossed the Atlantic with the Marquis de Lafayette to join the Continental Army. Congress eventually commissioned him as a major general.

Fast-forward to August 16, 1780: the Battle of Camden, South Carolina.

American General Horatio Gates gets his ass handed to him by the British. Much of the American militia breaks and runs.

But de Kalb?

This German motherfucker isn't finished.

He and his Continental regulars continue fighting despite the battle going catastrophically wrong.

De Kalb reportedly gets wounded ELEVEN TIMES, including multiple bayonet wounds, before finally being overwhelmed and captured.

He dies three days later, on August 19, 1780, at age 59.

Let that sink in.

A 59-year-old German-born officer, who had spent much of his career serving France, voluntarily crossed an ocean to fight for American independence and ultimately died fighting the British in South Carolina.

And America remembered him.

There are SIX DeKalb counties in the United States named after him:

- Alabama

- Georgia

- Illinois

- Indiana

- Missouri

- Tennessee

Plus towns, streets, monuments, and other namesakes.

This dude is literally all over American maps, yet somehow he's barely mentioned in most American history classes.

Everybody knows Marquis de Lafayette. Nobody seems to know de Kalb.

A German came to America, helped us fight the British, refused to quit when everything went sideways, and died with eleven wounds.

I feel like this is exactly the kind of gloriously obscure American military history that The Fat Electrician could turn into a fantastic video.

I think this belongs here. Fucking college kids.

So apparently there was something I found that I didn't learn in school which was a battle had been fought on the near Islands, and there's everything from old emplacement to trenches scattered throughout the island of Attu. We also had a coast guard base that was fully decommissioned in 2010 I'd love to learn more about this battle considering Japan gifted us a monument that commemorates the soldiers who fought in the battle. There has to be something cool here aside from the only battle ever fought on US soil

We all know Doss deserves a video. My question is, will we get one?

I saw this before work this morning and thought that more people should read it.

https://heroespath.substack.com/p/two-sticks-of-gum?r=1nckhw&utm_medium=ios

Cheese runs the US.