A civilization that educates clever cowards will eventually be ruled by tyrants or technicians - C.S. Lewis
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Bill Hemmer's stupid glass election thing is impossible to read.
What fail. It shows everything on the wall behind it
Fuck low IQ airhead
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Weird he doesn't name who killed him
🇦🇺 His name was Leonard Siffleet. He was 27. There was a woman waiting for him in Australia.
The photograph of his final moments became one of the Pacific War’s most haunting images. But Len had a life before that beach.
He grew up in Gunnedah, New South Wales. After his mother died, he helped his sister care for their two youngest brothers. He was engaged to Clarice Lane.
An Australian Army radio operator, he volunteered for special duties and joined a mission to establish a secret observation post behind Japanese lines in New Guinea.
Captured, beaten and interrogated, he spent weeks in captivity.
On October 24, 1943, Len and two Ambonese soldiers serving with the Netherlands East Indies forces, Pattiwahl and Reharin, were taken to Aitape Beach and executed.
Their bodies were never recovered.
American troops found the photograph the following year. It preserved the moment before Len’s death. It could not show everything that had come before it.
Remember Leonard Siffleet. Remember Pattiwahl and Reharin. Three men whose lives were more than their final moments.
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