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#91
The Tailgate / Today in history 7-8
Last post by remrogers - July 08, 2026, 09:04:01 AM1918
July 8
Ernest Hemingway wounded on the Italian front
On July 8, 1918, Ernest Hemingway, an 18-year-old ambulance driver for the American Red Cross, is struck by a mortar shell while serving on the Italian front, along the Piave delta, in World War I.
A native of Oak Park, Illinois, Hemingway was working as a reporter for the Kansas City Star when war broke out in Europe in 1914. He volunteered for the Red Cross in France before the American entrance into the war in April 1917 and was later transferred to the Italian front, where he was on hand for a string of Italian successes along the Piave delta in the first days of July 1918, during which 3,000 Austrians were taken prisoner.
On the night of July 8, 1918, Hemingway was struck by an Austrian mortar shell while handing out chocolate to Italian soldiers in a dugout. The blow knocked him unconscious and buried him in the earth of the dugout; fragments of shell entered his right foot and his knee and struck his thighs, scalp and hand. Two Italian soldiers standing between Hemingway and the shell's point of impact were not so lucky, however: one was killed instantly and another had both his legs blown off and died soon afterward.
Hemingway's friend Ted Brumbach, who visited him in the hospital, wrote to Hemingway's parents that: "A third Italian was badly wounded and this one Ernest, after he had regained consciousness, picked up on his back and carried to the first aid dugout. He says he did not remember how he got there, nor that he carried the man, until the next day, when an Italian officer told him all about it and said that it had been voted to give him a valor medal for the act." As Brumbach reported, Hemingway was awarded an Italian medal of valor, the Croce de Guerra, for his service. As he wrote in his own letter home after the incident: "Everything is fine and I am very comfortable and one of the best surgeons in Milan is looking after my wounds."
Hemingway's experiences in Italy during World War I would become an integral part of his larger-than-life persona, as well as the material for one of his best-loved novels, A Farewell to Arms, which chronicles the love of a young American ambulance driver for a beautiful English nurse on the Italian front during the Great War.
July 8
Ernest Hemingway wounded on the Italian front
On July 8, 1918, Ernest Hemingway, an 18-year-old ambulance driver for the American Red Cross, is struck by a mortar shell while serving on the Italian front, along the Piave delta, in World War I.
A native of Oak Park, Illinois, Hemingway was working as a reporter for the Kansas City Star when war broke out in Europe in 1914. He volunteered for the Red Cross in France before the American entrance into the war in April 1917 and was later transferred to the Italian front, where he was on hand for a string of Italian successes along the Piave delta in the first days of July 1918, during which 3,000 Austrians were taken prisoner.
On the night of July 8, 1918, Hemingway was struck by an Austrian mortar shell while handing out chocolate to Italian soldiers in a dugout. The blow knocked him unconscious and buried him in the earth of the dugout; fragments of shell entered his right foot and his knee and struck his thighs, scalp and hand. Two Italian soldiers standing between Hemingway and the shell's point of impact were not so lucky, however: one was killed instantly and another had both his legs blown off and died soon afterward.
Hemingway's friend Ted Brumbach, who visited him in the hospital, wrote to Hemingway's parents that: "A third Italian was badly wounded and this one Ernest, after he had regained consciousness, picked up on his back and carried to the first aid dugout. He says he did not remember how he got there, nor that he carried the man, until the next day, when an Italian officer told him all about it and said that it had been voted to give him a valor medal for the act." As Brumbach reported, Hemingway was awarded an Italian medal of valor, the Croce de Guerra, for his service. As he wrote in his own letter home after the incident: "Everything is fine and I am very comfortable and one of the best surgeons in Milan is looking after my wounds."
Hemingway's experiences in Italy during World War I would become an integral part of his larger-than-life persona, as well as the material for one of his best-loved novels, A Farewell to Arms, which chronicles the love of a young American ambulance driver for a beautiful English nurse on the Italian front during the Great War.
#92
Saltwater / Re: Salmon safari: two hours b...
Last post by Okanagan - July 07, 2026, 07:35:08 PMQuote from: nastygunz on July 07, 2026, 05:44:59 PMThems chunky🐟🐟🐟🐟
The fish this year are nearly all short, fat and deep bodied, and really strong. They seem well fed and healthy. Day before yesterday they got one that weighed 20 lbs. on the biologist fish checker's scale, our best keeper of the year so far. It's a far cry from the routine 30 pounders of the 1960's but fun fishing and good eating.
One of the fish I took home has outstanding flavor. They are all tasty but this is one of those rare ones that take flavor to the next level.
#93
Saltwater / Re: Salmon safari: two hours b...
Last post by nastygunz - July 07, 2026, 05:44:59 PMThems chunky🐟🐟🐟🐟
#94
Saltwater / Re: Salmon safari: two hours b...
Last post by Hawks Feather - July 07, 2026, 04:02:14 PMThat is quite the story and I am sure that it was exciting. Don't you just 'love' it when you catch a fish and others decided that is where they want to fish! 😤
#95
Saltwater / Re: Salmon safari: two hours b...
Last post by KySongDog - July 07, 2026, 03:29:16 PMGreat story! Sounds like fun was in all caps!
#96
The Tailgate / Re: LBL!
Last post by KySongDog - July 07, 2026, 03:25:31 PM
#97
Saltwater / Salmon safari: two hours bored...
Last post by Okanagan - July 07, 2026, 02:54:03 PMShort version: three men in a boat all three hook salmon at virtually the same time in rough water, get blown into brushing a navigation buoy while fighting the fish and land all three salmon.
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After two hours of boringly slow fishing, one of my cousins hooked a good fish. 30 seconds later it ran under the boat, surfaced in front of me and appeared to cross my line. It veered left just as something slammed my lure. I set the hook into a solid fish and then my cousin said, "I think my fish is fouled in your line." Duh, with a second's thought that appeared to be what had happened. So I loosened my drag way back to let my cousin play his fish without interference from my line.
I followed the fight back around the stern of the boat giving line as the fish ran, and then my other cousin said, "Your line is straight out behind the boat and Dave's fish is off to the left." We were fighting two salmon. Just then my fish made a high leaping arc almost on the beach, way out there backlit against the low angle sun. I reeled fast... but the line went totally slack. We thought that he'd come off.
I reeled in a bunch of line leisurely, felt a tug and I'll be, the salmon was still on my line! As I played my fish, one of the cousins reeled up part way and then quickly laid his rod down to grab the net because his brother's salmon was ready to net. He scooped the salmon, lifted it into the boat and that second his rod started jerking as a salmon grabbed his jig that was hanging over the side.
About then I noticed that the wind was drifting us toward the huge red navigation buoy off the point. I called it out but the boys were busy. I should have run the boat but it looked like we were going to clear the buoy. Oops. We grazed the buoy, not real hard but daunting. My bad.
Amazingly, we landed all three fish, all in low to mid teens. Mine was a ripping jumper. The good bite lasted and we finished our limit of two apiece. Only one other boat was out there and they moved in close to us and caught two.
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I didn't take any pics of the fracas. These pics from last year. I also left out the choreography of our dance around the boat to pass rods over one another, trying to keep clear of each other. FUN in all caps.
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After two hours of boringly slow fishing, one of my cousins hooked a good fish. 30 seconds later it ran under the boat, surfaced in front of me and appeared to cross my line. It veered left just as something slammed my lure. I set the hook into a solid fish and then my cousin said, "I think my fish is fouled in your line." Duh, with a second's thought that appeared to be what had happened. So I loosened my drag way back to let my cousin play his fish without interference from my line.
I followed the fight back around the stern of the boat giving line as the fish ran, and then my other cousin said, "Your line is straight out behind the boat and Dave's fish is off to the left." We were fighting two salmon. Just then my fish made a high leaping arc almost on the beach, way out there backlit against the low angle sun. I reeled fast... but the line went totally slack. We thought that he'd come off.
I reeled in a bunch of line leisurely, felt a tug and I'll be, the salmon was still on my line! As I played my fish, one of the cousins reeled up part way and then quickly laid his rod down to grab the net because his brother's salmon was ready to net. He scooped the salmon, lifted it into the boat and that second his rod started jerking as a salmon grabbed his jig that was hanging over the side.
About then I noticed that the wind was drifting us toward the huge red navigation buoy off the point. I called it out but the boys were busy. I should have run the boat but it looked like we were going to clear the buoy. Oops. We grazed the buoy, not real hard but daunting. My bad.
Amazingly, we landed all three fish, all in low to mid teens. Mine was a ripping jumper. The good bite lasted and we finished our limit of two apiece. Only one other boat was out there and they moved in close to us and caught two.
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I didn't take any pics of the fracas. These pics from last year. I also left out the choreography of our dance around the boat to pass rods over one another, trying to keep clear of each other. FUN in all caps.
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#98
The Tailgate / Re: LBL!
Last post by nastygunz - July 07, 2026, 12:25:33 PMThat sounds like me at Walmart 
Quote from: KySongDog on July 07, 2026, 08:50:33 AMQuote from: FinsnFur on May 20, 2026, 05:11:01 AMIs that @KySongDog?
Not me, lol. LBL can be spooky at times especially at night. People have gone missing and others found dead but I think the cause was two legged predators and not some big foot. I'm always armed and wary of anyone I meet on those back roads.
#99
The Tailgate / Today in history 7-7
Last post by remrogers - July 07, 2026, 11:01:41 AM1865
July 7
Mary Surratt is first woman executed by U.S. federal government
Mary Surratt is executed for her role as a conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's assassination. She is the first woman put to death by the U.S. government.
Surratt, who owned a tavern in Surrattsville (now Clinton), Maryland, had to convert her row house in Washington, D.C., into a boardinghouse as a result of financial difficulties. Located a few blocks from Ford's Theatre, where Lincoln was murdered, this house served as the place where a group of Confederate supporters, including John Wilkes Booth, conspired to assassinate the president. It was Surratt's association with Booth that ultimately led to her conviction, though debate continues as to the extent of her involvement and whether it really warranted so harsh a sentence.
On the day of the assassination, Booth asked Surratt to deliver a package, which was later discovered to contain firearms, to her old tavern in Maryland. On her way home, Surratt ran into John Lloyd, a former Washington police officer who currently leased the tavern. When authorities first questioned Lloyd about their encounter, he did not mention anything significant and denied that Booth and David Herold had visited his tavern. Yet when questioned later, he claimed that Surratt had told him to have whiskey and weapons ready for Booth and Herold, who would be stopping by that night.
Louis Weichmann, one of the alleged conspirators who delivered the package with Surratt, was released after he testified against her. He later claimed that the government had forced him to testify, and that it plagued his conscience for the rest of his life. Furthermore, Lewis Powell, a conspirator who was hanged with Surratt, proclaimed her innocence to his executioner minutes before his death.
Many expected President Andrew Johnson to pardon Surratt because the U.S. government had never hanged a woman. The execution was delayed until the afternoon, and soldiers were stationed on every block between the White House and Fort McNair, the execution site, to relay the expected pardon. But the order never came.
Ever since her death, numerous sightings of Mary Surratt's ghost and other strange occurrences have been reported around Fort McNair. A hooded figure in black, bound at the hands and feet as Surratt had been at the time of her execution, has allegedly been seen moving about. Several children of soldiers have reported a "lady in black" who plays with them.
July 7
Mary Surratt is first woman executed by U.S. federal government
Mary Surratt is executed for her role as a conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's assassination. She is the first woman put to death by the U.S. government.
Surratt, who owned a tavern in Surrattsville (now Clinton), Maryland, had to convert her row house in Washington, D.C., into a boardinghouse as a result of financial difficulties. Located a few blocks from Ford's Theatre, where Lincoln was murdered, this house served as the place where a group of Confederate supporters, including John Wilkes Booth, conspired to assassinate the president. It was Surratt's association with Booth that ultimately led to her conviction, though debate continues as to the extent of her involvement and whether it really warranted so harsh a sentence.
On the day of the assassination, Booth asked Surratt to deliver a package, which was later discovered to contain firearms, to her old tavern in Maryland. On her way home, Surratt ran into John Lloyd, a former Washington police officer who currently leased the tavern. When authorities first questioned Lloyd about their encounter, he did not mention anything significant and denied that Booth and David Herold had visited his tavern. Yet when questioned later, he claimed that Surratt had told him to have whiskey and weapons ready for Booth and Herold, who would be stopping by that night.
Louis Weichmann, one of the alleged conspirators who delivered the package with Surratt, was released after he testified against her. He later claimed that the government had forced him to testify, and that it plagued his conscience for the rest of his life. Furthermore, Lewis Powell, a conspirator who was hanged with Surratt, proclaimed her innocence to his executioner minutes before his death.
Many expected President Andrew Johnson to pardon Surratt because the U.S. government had never hanged a woman. The execution was delayed until the afternoon, and soldiers were stationed on every block between the White House and Fort McNair, the execution site, to relay the expected pardon. But the order never came.
Ever since her death, numerous sightings of Mary Surratt's ghost and other strange occurrences have been reported around Fort McNair. A hooded figure in black, bound at the hands and feet as Surratt had been at the time of her execution, has allegedly been seen moving about. Several children of soldiers have reported a "lady in black" who plays with them.
#100
The Tailgate / Re: LBL!
Last post by KySongDog - July 07, 2026, 08:50:33 AMQuote from: FinsnFur on May 20, 2026, 05:11:01 AMIs that @KySongDog?
Not me, lol. LBL can be spooky at times especially at night. People have gone missing and others found dead but I think the cause was two legged predators and not some big foot. I'm always armed and wary of anyone I meet on those back roads.