Mister Fweem's Blog: Finding Where Squatteth the Toad of Truth

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Finding Where Squatteth the Toad of Truth

As I was cleaning my desk the other day (a constant task in my house) I stumbled across some notes I took at a BSA "Blue Badge" training. Nobody could explain to me the "blue" in "Blue Badge," but you know, some things are obviously left unanswered. I started the day with a bad attitude, though I'm not sure that shows through in my notes. And it's clear by the end of the day -- judging by the "notes" I took -- that I was done being there.

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The Indiana and the Illinois units came over the barricade north of the railroad and captured a gun. Private James S. Adkins of the 33rd Illinois, exhilarated by the bloodless victory, leaped astride the gun tube, waved his elbows up and down at his sides, and crowed like a rooster. Then, curious, he tugged at the lanyard. The gun went off, hurling a shell close over the heads of the units coming up in support, and bucking Adkins head over heels into the dirt. Miraculously, no one was hurt.