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I read this book many years ago...Since the death of my wife, I have taken extended car trips with just my two dogs for company....They are great/wonderful companions...It is a fascinating book that most would enjoy....My book will be "Travels with Sparky and Maggie Mae...I Love My Dogs!"

This is a follow up....
Before the pandemic mess, I took an extended car trip, with my two dogs, to Yorktown Battlefield, in Virginia....I wanted to see, and feel the soil under my feet, where British rule was vanquished from our shores....I wanted to see where General George Washington, and young, brave Lafayette, defeated General Cornwallis...I was not disappointed...

My two dogs look like these two...
Sparky...(Cockapoodle)

Maggie Mae...(Miniature Shih Tuz)

When we were standing in front of Redoubt Number 9, and then number 10, I told my two dogs, once these positions fell, the British were doomed and we were born....Sparky set down on his haunches and put his paw up, in some sort of a mini type of salute, or shake hand movement......I know it sounds wild, but he probably picked up on the emotion in my voice and reacted to it....I was feeling it, and a little choked up...It would have been a hell of a Budweiser commercial....Forget the Clydesdales, it's Cockapoodle time.....

 

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Additional follow up to my Yorktown trip...

One of the lesser known signers of the Declaration of Independence, (Thomas Nelson Jr.) was at the battle of Yorktown, helping the Continental Army drive the British into the sea.....He urged General Washington to fire on his own house (he was from Yorktown) because General Cornwallis was quartered there in his captured home....He even offered 5 guineas to the first man that could put a cannon ball into his Yorktown home...What a guy, what a hell of a great guy....

The home of Thomas Nelson Jr. in Yorktown (If you look closely, you can almost see Cornwallis running away in fear)

Mr. Thomas Nelson Jr. at rest now....Well done, sir!