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February 2023 Edition

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  “I was looking at him, while he was looking at me; I was just a little quicker to the trigger!” – Sgt. Carlos “White Feather” Hathcock, US soldier in the Vietnam War and highly renowned Marine sniper   Unfortunately, even the folks of the Vietnam War era are not that familiar with the name of Carlos Hathcock II.   If it wasn’t for the internet and a few good books, he’d be all but lost in American and world history. Despite the best attempts by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), Hathcock single-handily harassed and became a consistent threat to the NVA top leaders.   There are at least a handful of missions that are of more than legendary status when it came to involving Sargent Hathcock.   Hathcock was such an immense irritation to the NVA, that they placed a bounty on his life of US$30k – which was a huge sum of money in those days, and at the time, a world record for highest bounty ever on a single person! Fortunately for Carlos, most all of the Vietnamese assassins had a lo
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January 30, 2023 Edition

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  “Magic is better!” “No.   Jordan!   Jordan’s the best.” “What makes you two young fellows think ‘The Magic Man’ or ‘MJ’ is better than ‘Larry Legend’?” “More MVPs!   Magic won three in a row!” “Are you sure about that?   You better ask your father which NBA players won three MVPs in a row.” Two young fans and myself at the local basketball game.   I attended the Univ. of North Dakota’s “Betty” the other week for a men’s basketball game and I decided to break-out my Larry Bird jersey for the occasion.   A group of young boys, probably around 9 to 10 years of age, noticed my jersey and by halftime a couple of them decided to start talking and bragging-up their favorite players from the era (the power of YouTube is crazy).   Unfortunately, the debate and dialogue didn’t last very long as one of the young fellows pulled out his gadget with a screen.   After a minute or two, he and his sidekick whispered a few particulars and then responded, “Magic won three, but Jordan had
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Dec. 28th, 2022 Edition

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  "Well, hopefully he’s a good cricketer.   If he is, then he will likely play for Australia; if he’s not – well, then I guess he’ll be able to play for England!” – female Aussie cricket player (who is married to an Englishman) when asked about their new baby boy playing future national cricket   Wow, trash-talking your spouse through the press, and getting a dig into your main rival at the same time!   That has to rank right up there as one of the best of all of time!   The game of cricket is the second most popular sport in the world (soccer/English football would top the list), and the England/Australia rivalry is arguably the fiercest amongst all the cricket playing nations.   As you can imagine, this quote received a ton of international press as it was not only humorous, but also further stirred the pot for two of the top-performing national teams on the world stage. Sometimes we need that person on our farm team that always stirs the pot to keep everyone on their toes
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