• DankOfAmerica
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    2719 hours ago

    the Battle for Blair Mountain

    Welp, here’s another rabbit hole on the list. See yall later 👋😀

    • @[email protected]
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      14 hours ago

      Let me know how you come out. Happy digging rabbit. Happy digging.

      Edit: One of the crazy things in that wiki article to me was it listed ~1,000,000 shots fired, and only about 34 dead.

      That would mean if the average person shot 100 rounds, and they knew 300 other people in attendance, on average 1 of those 300 may have actually shot someone dead.

      I liked the movie League of Extraordinary Gentle back in the day, but now I know what he meant when he quoted Americans as “fire enough bullets and hope to hit the target”

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        612 hours ago

        IIRC You want to suppress the enemy and move to flank them. If you wait to see the enemy you risk giving them the upper hand.