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Less than two months after the march down Beacon Street, the cause of truth brought Shaw and his men to the beach beneath Fort Wagner, which guarded the harbor entrance to Charleston. Shaw volunteered to lead the attack. Perhaps he was rash. Perhaps his commanders regarded his troops as fodder, expendable. Intelligence reports claimed that Shaw's 600 men outnumbered the defenders 2 to 1. Exactly the reverse was true. Even after a heavy Union bombardment, Confederate soldiers remained strongly entrenched behind their palmetto barriers. As darkness fell on July 18, 1863, Shaw spoke quietly to his troops...
There are many stories like this in the book. Anderson fullfils the need to publicize this kind of information by simply reporting it without analysis; he allows it to lose its original meaning and become just some more political fodder. Anderson never states in High In America that cases like Billy's show that the stakes of the marijuana issue are too high to let it be trivialized by politics...
...doomed rescue attempt, Lee and the other hostages were removed from the embassy compound and taken from jail to jail. He also spent some time in solitary confinement and had not been outdoors since last June. Lee's summation was terse and chilling: "I was just cannon fodder to them, just another body...
...oppose the draft must continue political efforts to stop its adoption, but resisting a draft once it goes into effect may come too late. It is time now to warn the nation that we do not plan to be used as tools in political campaigns or as missile fodder in wars that have no moral justification. If the unhappy day comes when a necessary and moral battle needs to be fought-and each person, on his own, will make that decision-we will volunteer. For today, we say resist...
...feedstuff, sent more of their cattle to slaughter earlier in the summer in order to save on feeding them. Initially, this depressed beef prices, but the long-term effect will be to deplete the herds, reduce supply and make meat more expensive later. The production of soybeans, another animal fodder, is off 19% this year, although prices paid to the farmer have jumped 24%; this will mean higher prices for beef, as well as for salad and cooking oils. The heat also killed 5.3 million chickens. Wheat is the one bit of good news on the farm. This year...