âIn 2000, Virginia legislators got involved, asking Governor Jesse Ventura to return their captured icon.
âWhy?â he asked. âWe won.ââ
LMAAAAO
All the salty racists in the comments are a cherry on top.
Die mad about it energy strong af
Okay but this is a story that @dadhoc loves to talk about because this is a REALLY BIG DEAL in Minnesota.Â
I have heard the story of The First Minnesota at LEAST ONE HUNDRED TIMES in the course of my marriage and now I GET TO TELL THE REST OF YOU.Â
So. Itâs not just ANY Confederate flag. It is the Confederate flag that the First Minnesota captured on July 3rd, 1863. The First Minnesota prevented the Union line from crumbling by keeping the Federalists from being pushed off of Cemetery Ridge on July 2nd, and on July 2nd, the First Minnesota sustained 82% casualties.
EIGHTY-TWO PERCENT CASUALTIES. They started out as 262 men and ended as 47. But they held the line. They held. The. Line. Then on July 3rd they were placed in one of the few places where the line was breached, and they thus had to charge in again and retake the line breaches, and they did.Â
It was during one of these charges â remember, theyâd already lost eighty-two percent of their friends â that Private Marshall Sherman of Company C captured the flag. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for this.
The survivors of the First Minnesota at Gettysburg served through the rest of the war.Â
Now, Virginians have asked for it back repeatedly, saying âitâs our heritage.â But the response from the Minnesota Historical Society has basically been, as @dadhoc has summed it up, âto us, this is the legacy of 215 men who were killed or wounded in the preservation of the Union. What, exactly, is its legacy to you?â
No oneâs been able to give an answer that isnât âitâs our legacy of trying to destroy the US over slavery,â because there isnât one.Â
Fuck Virginia wanting that flag back, it belongs in Minnesota.Â
As someone who grew up in Gettysburg, I feel like I missed out on not knowing this story and now I need to pay my respects to these men next time I visit my mom. This is entirely amazing and I love it.
@dadhoc yells about this piece of their stateâs history ALL THE TIME. Itâs one of those pieces of history that should be talked about more because the fact that the First Minnesota held the line on the 2nd where they did is one of those âfor want of a nailâ moments, where if that specific spot in the line had broken, Gettysburg, and thus the war, would have gone VERY differently.
The flag was on display for a long time and IIRC it only isnât now because of its condition. HOWEVER if any of my followers who live in MN want to go see the actual flag of the First Minnesota, IIRC itâs in the State House rotunda. (I told you, @dadhoc talks about this A LOT.)
Okay but this image from the Reddit thread linked above:
While Iâm sure there are people too lazy to spin a fork, keep in mind people like this person who may be suffering from arthritis or a neurological disease or nerve damage or a thousand other conditions that might impair their ability to do things as simple as spin a fork to eat spaghetti.Â
These are used with people who canât grip well:Â
This is for Parkinsonsâs:Â
For people who canât even bend their joints:Â
Hereâs a product that guides your hand from your plate to your mouthÂ
This one holds a sandwichÂ
Like I get it. I used to see things like the fork and think âthatâs fuckinâ lazyâ or that product that holds a gallon and you just tip it and pour. But then I started working around the disabled and impaired and found out that these products arenât meant for lazy people, theyâre meant for people who need help.Â
So maybe next time you see something, instead of thinking âWow, are people that lazy?â just be grateful that youâre able to do the things you do every day and take for granted, like being able to feed yourself and wipe your own ass because you have enough coordination and bendy joints to do it.Â
This isnât specualtion either; the majority of products from commericals that we think are funny or silly are autally MEANT for hte disabled.But they are marketed towards the abled because the disabled arenât considered a viable enough demographic on their own.
the Snuggie for example? Created for wheelchair users.
This is actually really nifty.
oh my god of course the snuggie was for wheelchair users
The fact that anyone buys these products besides disabled people drastically lowers the price of them. These would normally cost hundreds if not thousands if dollars. Because if spent time and money creating it, the company wants to get more than that back. And they canât do that if they sell and market these primarily to disabled people for $20-$40 a piece or whatever. Theyâd lose money on production. If they can sell hundreds of them to everyone, they can lower the price drastically and therefore disabled people donât die while trying to scrape up the money to buy these things and be a bit more independent.
I never considered that last part and thatâs actually genius
Like yeah, a handful of people ARE that lazy.
But those are the people who use these products even though they donât need them and thus allow the price to be lower for those who DO.
So honestly in this case good bless the lazy and those prone to gimmicks because they are invaluable to the elderly and disabled in this sense.
@thebibliosphere Look! People learning about disability and why to be kind!
The normalization of disability aids needs to be a thing precisely so they can cost less.
