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Books: 'The Ocean.' 'Gaza - This Bleeding Land.' 'The Reckoning Time', and 'Jungle Days.'

Articles at Medium: medium.com/@johnwight1

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John Wight @JohnWight1 6h

This history and historical record is invaluable.

WW2 The Eastern Front Verified account @ShoahUkraine 10h

20 years after Stalingrad in 1963, Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Chuikov and Sergeant Yakov Pavlov sit at the same table again, on the Soviet television show "Goluboy Ogonyok" .

Marshal Chuikov introduces him as "the house owner of Stalingrad," Pavlov names every man who held Pavlov's House with him for 58 days, and Marshal Chuikov tells how he found Pavlov after the war in Weimar and got him the Hero of the Soviet Union star.

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John Wight @JohnWight1 7h

In literature there is studied a difference between the complex and the esoteric.

The interior life of a given character invites the former. The self-consciousness of the writer -- i.e. a contrivance of style -- invites the latter.

It is well to understand both in order to arrive at an understanding of literature.

Matthias @mjattb 7h

@JohnWight1 @kela9123 Highly suggest reading a Faulkner book, as you seem to have not before.
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John Wight @JohnWight1 14h

Manchester United needs new owners far more than it needs a new manager.

Shameful treatment of one of the club's most loyal ever servants.

Futbol de Inglaterra Verified account @Mercado_Ingles 1d

Michael Carrick habría salido llorando de Carrington al despedirse de los jugadores que no tuvieron compromisos internacionales y entrenaron hoy. 😢🔴

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John Wight @JohnWight1 15h

I have contributed to the @M_Star_Online for the best part of 25 years. My fortnightly boxing column was a mainstay over this period.

I have now been informed that they will no longer commission my work over my stance on Russell Brand.

Clearly they have bowed to the mob, misandrists masquerading as feminists. They know who they are.

The new McCarthyism is upon us, except that rather than victims of it, what passes for the left in Britain in our time occupies Senator McCarthy’s chair.

John Wight @JohnWight1 20h

There are a few occasions, though not many, when the arrogance of powerful and prominent is undone by the actions of the powerless and anonymous.

This is one of those times.

Hegseth won't survive this public humiliation, and nor should be.

He's now toast and made so not by Congress or any articles of impeachment, but by a lone young soldier, earning peanuts by comparison, but imbued with a sense of duty and obligation to something higher than his own bank account or status in the grand scheme.

The Associated Press Verified account @AP 1d

A soldier guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier issued a verbal reprimand to a group of advisers and staffers with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth following a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. As the group broke from taking photos, a loud laugh could be heard, and the soldier guarding the tomb shouted: “All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times.”

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