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A happy new year to you too! I hope the year brings great things your way!

Happy new year!!

I wish you all a very happy new year. I hope that this year 2020 will bring you happiness and success to you and your loved ones but also and above all health!

For me, this year 2019 was one of the most beautiful years that I have had to live. First of all because at the start of the year, I chose to join the Tumblr community. It allowed me to actively join this family that is the fandom of Band of Brothers and The Pacific! I had no idea that there was such a caring, kind and respectful community of facts and people and I am so grateful to have joined it! Then, I made the decision to create an imaginary blog which is certainly not very active but which opens the door for me to combine several of my passions that are writing and these two tv shows! I also discovered anime that changed my life! I changed this year, I feel it in the way I see things now, in my behavior and also in my writing. I feel that this year has been a trigger for wonderful things still to come! I hope I can continue to be part of this wonderful HBO war family, meet wonderful people and accomplish new things!

Of course, this year has not been easy and those to come will not be easy either but for the moment I want to shout that we are alive, that we have succeeded this year. I want to shout that I am proud of you who have suffered terribly but who continue to fight, I want to shout that I care about you, that you count, I want to shout that I love you no matter your sex, your sexuality, your religion, your situation, your nationality, your origins, your skin color. I want to shout that you are not alone.

I wish you all the happiness in the world and I hope you enjoy these magical moments with your loved ones. It is the little moments that are most important. And if you do not organize anything (like me) you can always go through my ask box, I will be delighted to make new friends, get to know you and simply speak even if it's about the weather!

My best wishes for all of you with all my love.

Please be safe and always keep smiling.

With blessings and hugs,

♥️Aliénore♥️

Special thanks to this amazing people that I love et respect with all my heart. They helped me through all this year and make my days brighter please know that I'm eternally grateful to you!

@softliebgott

@warmommy

@lostinthewiind

@prxttyvixens

@wexhappyxfew

@david-weepster

@theonetryingtolive

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@etainlord

@lazydoodlesandfanfic

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@sini-spice

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@lovingunderratedcharacters

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@merakiaes

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@queenofkeys

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Back at you :) @kokomobunny

You better fuckin believe it [x]

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I am Spartacus!

On December 19th, 1944 Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds was captured by German forces during the Battle of the Bulge, the last major Axis offensive of the war. Edmond was sent to Stalag IX-A, a prisoner of war camp housing 1,275 American servicemen. As the highest ranking non-commissioned officer in the camp, Edmonds was responsible for these men. On January 27th, 1945 the camp commandant ordered Edmonds to have all the camps Jewish soldiers present themselves separate from the rest of the men. At the time the average grunt only had a vague idea of the Holocaust. There were rumors, stories, and some official reports, but few common soldiers really had any idea as to the extent of the Nazi’s persecution of Jews. However, Edmonds understood enough to know that the commandant’s order would only lead to bad things for the 200 American Jews who occupied the camp.

Edmonds ordered all 1,275 POWs to assemble in the main courtyard. Quite dismayed the commandant demanded all Jews to step forward. All 1,275 men stepped forward. In anger, the commandant pulled a pistol on Edmonds and demanded he call out all of the Jewish soldiers present. Edmonds responded, “We are all Jews here, if you have to shoot Jews, you will have to shoot us all.” Edmonds then reminded the commandant that as POWs they were protected under the Geneva Convention, and all they had to give him was their name, rank, and serial number. Any abuses to his men would be considered war crimes, and he would likely be wanted as a war criminal when the war is over. The commandant begrudgingly backed down.

After the war Edmonds continued his career in the US Army, serving in Korea as well. He rarely ever spoke about his experiences during the war, and they only came to light after his death in 1985 when his family found his war time diary. He was awarded the title “Righteous Among Nations” by Yad Vashem in 2015 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2017.

Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds

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Hey BoB beauts, West10g Productions made some films about the Band of Brothers Reunion that happened in Cleveland in November so i’m just gunna link the videos here, they’re about 2 mins each and have some shots of the actors talking about the experience 

Wahlburgers -

Student Event at Cuyahoga Community College - 

Band of Brothers" Visit the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center - 

Reunion Event -

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his loss hurt everybody very deeply. he was the last man company e lost during the war. as reported, he was hit by one of our own grenade fragments, which tells me, as a good soldier, he was right up front in the charge on the german outpost.

— major richard winters

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i dont play assassins creed, but is this like the entire plotline or something??

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Cheer Up Post #2924 - Victorian People Smiling Edition

mariacharlet requests a post featuring Victorian-era people smiling in photographs. Enjoy!

***Disclaimer: Most of the images used do not belong to me. If you see one that’s yours, and you would like credit or to have it removed/replaced, please just ask.

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Cancer  • Water  •  June 21-July 22  •  White

Deeply intuitive and sentimental, Cancer can be one of the most challenging zodiac signs to get to know. They are very emotional and sensitive, and care deeply about matters of the family and their home. Cancer is sympathetic and attached to people they keep close. They are very loyal and able to empathize with other people’s pain and suffering. (x)

Also: First Sergeant William Evans, July 16, 1910

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You're such an absolute sweetheart Maddie! I know I'm not on so much lately, but my inbox is always open. I'm tending to post more on my main atm @mimicthephoenix as well.

do you ever look back at a friendship with someone from the internet and think to yourself, “i’m so glad that i decided to befriend them because they make me so happy”

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Please make a post about the story of the RMS Carpathia, because it's something that's almost beyond belief and more people should know about it.

Carpathia received Titanic’s distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.

(Californian’s exact position at the time is…controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic’s distress rockets. It’s uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)

Carpathia’s Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic’s aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.

All of Carpathia’s lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her. He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.

I don’t know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.

Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out. By this time, many of the passengers were awake–prepping a ship for disaster relief isn’t quiet–and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.

And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.

Here’s the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms–which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors. He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she’d done that, he asked her to go faster.

I need you to understand that you simply can’t push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless–it’s difficult to maneuver–but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can’t do it. It can’t be done.

Carpathia’s absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can’t-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.

No one would have asked this of them. It wasn’t expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a respondibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.

They damn near broke the laws of physics, galloping north headlong into the dark in the desperate hope that if they could shave an hour, half an hour, five minutes off their arrival time, maybe for one more person those five minutes would make the difference. I say: three people had died by the time they were lifted from the lifeboats. For all we know, in another hour it might have been more. I say they made all the difference in the world.

This ship and her crew received a message from a location they could not hope to reach in under four hours. Just barely over three hours later, they arrived at Titanic’s last known coordinates. Half an hour after that, at 4am, they would finally find the first of the lifeboats. it would take until 8:30 in the morning for the last survivor to be brought onboard. Passengers from Carpathia universally gave up their berths, staterooms, and clothing to the survivors, assisting the crew at every turn and sitting with the sobbing rescuees to offer whatever comfort they could.

In total, 705 people of Titanic’s original 2208 were brought onto Carpathia alive. No other ship would find survivors.

At 12:20am April 15th, 1912, there was a miracle on the North Atlantic. And it happened because a group of humans, some of them strangers, many of them only passengers on a small and unimpressive steam liner, looked at each other and decided: I cannot live with myself if I do anything less.

I think the least we can do is remember them for it.

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Haha. I'm loving the fact that if people haven't heard of the Discworld novels, they must what the hell we're on about.

Also have you seen the tv adaptations? I just binge watched all 3 of them. @msridcully

And tuna! We must leave the heavenly cat tuna! - queenofkeys

And there must be a magnificent Ball of Yarn to keep our Heavenly Fur father happy and appeased  @queenofkeys

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And my tagging is no longer working again....

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Live the kind of life that would make the Discworld witches proud.

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i’m reading emma thompson’s diaries from the sense and sensibility filming for an essay and it’s very satisfying

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So I know I haven’t been all that active lately and I’ve been trying to make more of an effort to participate in the fandom I love so much.

But I think I’m going to take a small break from this blog. I feel like if I don’t, I’m just going to start screaming nonsensically into the void because of all the current toxicity in the fandom. People trying to talk over jewish people and their concerns, the doxxing, but on the other hand people not owing up to the fact they’ve made misakes.

I’m just tired out. If anyone needs or wants to talk, feel free to drop into my messages either here or on my main blog if you know it.

I wish everyone on here all the best. This fandom has introduced me to a lot of lovely people, please don’t mistake that.

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So I know I haven't been all that active lately and I've been trying to make more of an effort to participate in the fandom I love so much.

But I think I'm going to take a small break from this blog. I feel like if I don't, I'm just going to start screaming nonsensically into the void because of all the current toxicity in the fandom. People trying to talk over jewish people and their concerns, the doxxing, but on the other hand people not owing up to the fact they've made misakes.

I'm just tired out. If anyone needs or wants to talk, feel free to drop into my messages either here or on my main blog if you know it.

I wish everyone on here all the best. This fandom has introduced me to a lot of lovely people, please don't mistake that.