How Lucky You Are…
Posted by josh on January 11, 2010
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American’s are surely the luckiest people on the planet. More than once we have been saved by a freak of nature or some weird accident. Take for example the war of 1812. The american army was a complete fail. We had almost all our regular troops fighting a pointless battle up in Canada, leaving our capitol to be defended by highly untrained militiamen. For example, in the battle of Bladensburg we retreated and surely would have been eradicated if it weren’t for the british suffering heatstroke, which prevented them from running. If they had been able to keep up with us, every single American would have been pickedoff before we even reached the capitol. Also once we fled the capitol and the British had captured and occupied it. A freak storm prevented them from burning the library of congress. And a random tornado inflicted more casualties than the american troops. Sometimes you have to realize how lucky you are…