The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General Gouverneur K. Warren, CE - April 11th, 2004

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What Happened to the "Hero of Little Round Top," Gouverneur K. Warren, CE?




During the battle of Gettysburg, General Warren is credited with the discovery of the Confederate troop movements attempting to attack the area known as "Little Round Top". His subsequent action is reported to have saved the entire left flank of the Union Army.

Robert E. Lee, with his eerie sense of a battlefield, was hastily assembling a force to attack the Union left, but it would take him the greater part of the day to get his men ready to strike. Meanwhile, Meade also sensed something significant about the two adjacent hills to his left. That afternoon he sent his chief of engineers, Brig. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren, to assess the situation.



To his utter chagrin, Warren found Little Round Top completely undefended. He hastily sent messengers to Meade and Sickles, requesting immediate assistance. Sickles, by that time hotly engaged with el-ements of Longstreet's corps, had none to spare. But Colonel Strong Vincent, who commanded the 3rd Brigade of Brig. Gen. Charles Griffin's 1st Division of the V Corps, received word from a harried courier about the threat to Little Round Top and led his men to the hill at the double-quick. Vincent's brigade included the 44th New York, 16th Michigan, 83rd Pennsylvania and the 358-man 20th Maine under Joshua L. Chamberlain.



On the second day at Gettysburg, 2 July 1863, Gouverneur K. Warren, Chief Engineer, Army of the Potomac, noticed that Little Round Top, key to the Union defensive position, was undefended. He ordered troops to the hill in time to blunt Hood’s attack. Almost two years later on 1 April 1865 at the Battle of Five Forks, Major General Philip Sheridan, with Grant’s authority, relieved him from command and sent him to the rear.



When Warren graduated second in the West Point class of 1850 he accepted a commission as a second lieutenant in the Corps of Topographical Engineers. In the years prior to the Civil War he worked with Andrew Humphreys on the Mississippi River, on transcontinental railroad surveys, and explored, surveyed, and mapped the trans-Mississippi West. At the start of the war he received a commission as a Lieutenant Colonel of Volunteers in the 5th New York Infantry Regiment, and by the fall he was a Colonel and regimental commander. Promoted to Brigadier General in September 1862 he served as Chief Topographical Engineer and then Chief Engineer, Army of the Potomac.

Promoted to Major General after Gettysburg, he commanded 2d Corps until March 1864 when Grant made him 5th Corps commander. He led the 5th Corps through the Union offensive from the Wilderness, to Cold Harbor, and into the Petersburg trenches. He must have done well because he was still in command when Grant began the offensive that led to Appomattox. Grant ordered an attack on the Confederates at Five Forks for 1 April with Sheridan in command of both his Cavalry Corps and Warren’s 5th Corps. Grant wanted Sheridan to push the attack and authorized him to relieve Warren if he got in the way.

The Battle of Five Forks, April 1, 1865, was the final Confederate offensive in the American Civil War.



Battle Of Five Forks "Hold At All Hazards" April 1, 1865

"I tell you, I'm ready to strike out tomorrow and go to smashing things!" exclaimed Union cavalry Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. It was March 30, 1865, and he was trying to convince Gen. Ulysses S. Grant not to let the heavy rains delay the offensive against the right of the Confederate line defending Petersburg, VA. Sheridan's cavalry, newly arrived from its victorious Shenandoah Valley campaign, had been sent by Grant along with some infantry units to envelop the Confederate flank and to sever the Southside Railroad, Richmond's last supply line to the South.


Philip Sheridan

For 10 months Grant had used his superior numbers to keep extending the westward the Union lines confronting Petersburg. Each movement stretched the opposing Confederate lines thinner, and Grant felt the time had come for those Rebel lines to break. Accordingly, he instructed Sheridan to continue the advance with his 30,000-man mixed command of cavalry and infantry to the crossroads southwest of Petersburg called Five Forks, which was five miles down White Oak Road from the existing battle lines and three miles south of the railroad.

Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, informed of Union activity near Five Forks, anticipated Grant's intention to cut the Southside Railroad. Union troops on the Rebel right flank would block the withdrawal route from Petersburg that Lee was planning for his army. On March 29, Lee ordered one-third of his army- 14,000 infantry commanded by Gen. George E. Pickett and 5,000 cavalry troops under Gen. W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee- to move to Five Forks and drive away the Union force.



When Sheridan's horsemen approached Five Forks around noon on March 31, they were attacked by Pickett's soldiers and pushed back to Dinwiddie Court House. Pickett returned his command to Five Forks and reported his success to General Lee. Lee's returning message said, "Hold Five Forks at all hazards."

On April 1, while Sheridan’s cavalry pinned the Confederate force in position, the V Corps under Major General G.K. Warren attacked and overwhelmed the Confederate left flank, taking many prisoners. Sheridan personally directed the attack, which extended Lee’s Petersburg lines to the breaking point. The loss of Five Forks threatened Lee’s last supply line, the South Side Railroad.

The next morning, Lee informed President Jefferson Davis that Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia must be evacuated. Union general Frederick Winthrop was killed and Willie Pegram, beloved Confederate artillery officer, was mortally wounded. Dissatisfied with his performance at Five Forks, Sheridan relieved Warren of command of the V Corps.


Spotsylvania Court House, Va., vicinity. Beverly house, headquarters of Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren, 5th Corps

Although Warren successfully defended his position against the Confederates, Sheridan and Grant thought he did not press the attack fast enough. At the end of the day, as Warren met Sheridan for what he thought was a celebration, Sheridan charged him with neglect during the battle, relieved him from command of 5th Corps “for cause,” and ordered him to report to Grant. Warren asked for a Report of Inquiry, but the end of the war, Lincoln’s assassination, and Johnson’s impeachment all got in the way.

Warren reverted to his Regular Army rank of Major, CE, and went back to work on the Mississippi River. In July 1866 he was assigned to serve as the first “Engineer in Charge” of the Corps’ new office in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he served until May 1870. He then was in charge of engineer operations along the New England coast with headquarters at Newport, Rhode Island. It took the Army until 1879, after Grant’s two terms, to grant Warren’s request for a hearing. The board finally published its findings in November 1882 exonerating Warren of any neglect at Five Forks on 1 April 1865.



However, it was too late for Warren. He died three months earlier on 8 August 1882. At his request his family buried him in civilian clothes and without military ceremony at Newport. He felt disgraced by his relief on the field of battle. Ironically, however, in 1888 a bronze statue of him in uniform as Chief Engineer, Army of the Potomac, was placed at Little Round Top, the key position he saved on the second day at Gettysburg.

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Warren at Little Round Top



This view (below) of Little Round Top at sunset shows Brigadier General Gouverneur K. Warren framed by Union Lieutenant Charles E. Hazlett's guns as he surveys the crest he was so instrumental in securing.



With seasoned Confederates from Major General John Bell Hood's Texas Brigade pouring towards them, General Warren diverted troops to the dangerously empty hilltop, which, through the valor of those who served there, successfully held the Union's left flank. If taken, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia may have had a clear field of fire down the entire Union line. However, they would have had to contend with the Union's largest Corps, Major General John Sedgwick's 6th Corps, which was moving up the Taneytown Road in this direction. Sadly, Lieutenant Charles Hazlett, whose efforts helped to hold this ground, was killed on Little Round Top as he leaned over his dying friend, Union Brigadier General Stephen Weed.



Little Round Top has become synonymous with the struggles of July 2nd, 1863. Tremendous heroism on the parts of Union and Confederate soldiers alike intertwined sometimes indistinguishably with unspeakable brutality. This view looks up to Little Round Top over the small, barely visible stream called Plum Run. Up these craggy slopes, Confederate men surged. On these slopes, Union men held. On these fields, death declined to choose sides, instead working his craft so efficiently that the Plum Run was said to have been flowing a continuous blood red.

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Today's Educational Sources and suggestions for further reading:

www.hq.usace.army.mil/history/vignettes/
http://www.brotherswar.com/Gettysburg-2c.htm

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Colonel Gouverneur Kemble Warren (1830-1882), second commander of the Duryee Zouaves, was a West Point-educated professional whose dedication and military skills were invaluable to his regiment. Warren later served as Chief Topographical Engineer of the Army of the Potomac, and as commander of the Fifth Corps.

Born in 1830 in New York, Gouverneur Warren graduated from West Point in 1850. He served with the Corps of Topographical Engineers and taught mathematics at West Point until the beginning of the Civil War. He participated in the Peninsula Campaign, Second Bull Run, and Antietam. At Gettysburg he gained fame for helping the Union avert probable disaster on Little Round Top. Subsequently, he was promoted to major general.

He was the commander of the V Corps for most of the remainder of the war. This corps was heavily engaged in most of the fighting around Petersburg. Criticisms of him being too cautious led to his removal, by Gen. Sheridan, of command of the V Corps as the battle of Five Forks was ending.


The Duryee’s Zouaves, 5th New York at Second Manassas
Assigned to Major General Warren's Fifth Corps, they played a conspicuous part in the campaigns of the East as part of the Army of the Potomac, enduring the actions of Bethesda Church, the Assult on Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, Poplar Spring Church, Hatcher's Run, Hicksford's Raid, Siege of Petersburg, 2nd Hatcher's Run, White Oak Road, Five Forks, and the Appomattox Surrender. They were mustered out 8/21/65 at Hart's Island, Long Island Sound, between Long Island and the Bronx.

Warren spent the rest of his army career as an engineer. He requested and finally received a court of inquiry into the charges that led to his removal. The court convened fourteen years after the fact and published its findings in November of 1882. The court had cleared Warren of the principal charges - three months after his death.

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Today's classic warship, USS Wateree

USS Wateree, a 1173-ton Sassacus class "double-ender" steam gunboat, was built at Chester, Pennsylvania. Unlike her numerous wooden sister ships, she was constructed with an iron hull. Commissioned in January 1864, Wateree was sent around Cape Horn to the Pacific, arriving at San Francisco, California, for post-voyage repairs in November 1864. From early 1865 until mid-1868, the gunboat patrolled along the west coasts of Central and South America as a unit of the South Atlantic Squadron.

On 13 August 1868, while she was at the Port of Arica, Peru (later part of Chile), a huge tidal wave struck the anchorage, breaking several ships loose from their anchors and casting them ashore. Wateree was carried nearly five-hundred yards inland, where she was deposited relatively intact. However, refloating and repairing her would have been impossibly expensive, so she was sold where she lay in November 1868. Reportedly, her hulk was subsequently employed as an inn.

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On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on April 11:
1370 Frederick I the Warlike elector of Saxony
1586 Pietro Della Valle composer
1722 Christopher Smart English poet & journalist (Ceremony of Carols)
1770 George Canning (C) British PM (1827)
1794 Edward Everett Dorchester MA, (Governor-MA), statesman/orator
1837 Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth Colonel (Union Army), died in 1861
1862 Charles Evans Hughs 11th Chief Justice of Supreme Court (1930-41)
1862 William W Campbell US astronomer/director Lick Observatory
1888 Donald Calthrop London, actor (Blackmail, Scrooge, Rome Express)
1889 Nick La Rocca US coronetist/composer (Tiger Rag)
1893 Dean G Acheson statesman/US Secretary of State (1949-53)
1899 Percy L Julian chemist (drugs for treatment of arthritis)
1901 Adriano Olivetti Italian engineer/manufacturer (typewriter)
1902 Quentin Reynolds New York NY, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI)
1908 Leo Rosten writer/humourist
1912 John Larkin Oakland CA, actor (Saints & Sinners, 12 O'Clock High)
1913 Oleg Cassini Paris France, fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy)
1916 Howard Koch producer/director (Frankenstein, Airplane II)
1918 Cameron Mitchell actor (Hombre, How to Marry a Millionaire)
1919 Hugh Carey (Governor-Democrat-NY)
1928 Ethel [Skakel] Kennedy Chicago IL, wife of Bobby
1930 Nicholas F Brady US Secretary of Treasury (1988-93)
1931 John[ny] Sheffield Pasadena CA, actor (boy in many Tarzan movies)
1932 Joel Grey [Joe Katz] Cleveland OH, actor (Cabaret, Remo Williams, 7% Solution)
1933 Tony Brown Charleston WV, newsman (Tony Brown's Journal)
1938 Michael Deaver politician
1939 Louise Lasser New York NY, actress (Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!)
1941 Frederick "Rick" Hauck Long Beach CA, astronaut (STS-7, STS 51-A, STS-26)
1942 Anatoli Nikolayevich Berezovoi Enem Adygeya Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-5)
1944 John Milius writer (Red Dawn, 1941, Big Wednesday)
1948 Ellen Goodman syndicated columnist
1955 Piers J Sellers Sussex England, PhD/astronaut
1973 Monica Chala Miss Ecuador-Universe (1996)

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Deaths which occurred on April 11:
0678 Donus Italian Pope (676-78), dies
1034 Romanus III Argyrus Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife
1240 Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies
1839 John Galt Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), dies at 59
1875 Heinrich Schwabe discoverer of 11-year sunspot cycle, dies
1902 Hendrik Potgieter South African Boer General, dies in battle
1903 Gemma Galgani Italian saint, dies at 25
1906 James A Bailey circus showman (Barnum & Bailey), dies at 58
1921 Augusta Victoria Queen of Prussia/wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, dies
1970 John H O'Hara US journalist (Pal Joey, Rage to Live), dies at 65
1975 Dorothy Patten dies at 70
1983 Dolores Del Rio actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 78
1985 Enver Hoxha party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76
1987 Erskine Caldwell novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83
1987 Kent Taylor actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders), dies at 79
1987 Primo Levi Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67
1992 James Brown actor (Rip-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies at 72
1993 Mohammed el-Himi Brigadier-General of Egyptian police, murdered
1993 Rachmon Nabiyev President of Tadzjikistan (1973..92), dies at 63

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1965 SWANSON WILLIAM E.---MINNEAPOLIS MN.
1968 WHITTEMORE FREDERICK H.---CARSON CITY NV.
1970 NELSON JAN HOUSTON---CLEARWATER FL.
1971 BUERK WILLIAM CARL---LOS ANGELES CA.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
0672 Deusdedit III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0678 Donus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1471 King Edward IV of England conquers London from Henry VI
1512 Battle at Ravenna France under Gaston de Foix beat Spanish Army
1567 Dutch Prince William of Orange flees from Antwerp to Breda
1677 Battle at Montcassel, French troops beat Prince William III
1689 William III & Mary II crowned as joint rulers of Britain
1713 Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese & French peace treaty
1814 1st abdication of France by Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba
1830 Robert Schumann attends piano concerto by Paganini
1848 Hungary becomes constitutional monarchy under king Ferdinand of Austria
1856 Battle of Rivas; Costa Rica beats Wm Walker's invading Nicaraguans
1862 Rebels surrender Fort Pulaski GA
1863 Battle of Suffolk VA (Norfleet House)
1865 Battle of Mobile AL - evacuated by Confederates
1865 Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction
1876 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks is organized
1876 Sir Charles Gordon ends religious tolerance in Sudan
1890 Ellis Island designated as an immigration station
1891 8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumour spreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews
1898 President William McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration
1899 Treaty of Paris is ratified, ending war; Spain cedes Puerto Rico to US
1900 US Navy's 1st submarine made its debut

1906 Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity

1907 New York Giant Roger Bresnahan becomes 1st catcher to wear shin guards
1914 George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion", premieres
1917 Babe Ruth beats New York Yankees, pitching 3-hit 10-3 win for Red Sox
1921 Iowa imposes 1st state cigarette tax
1921 KDKA broadcast the 1st radio sporting event, a boxing match (Ray-Dundee)
1925 Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco
1927 Chilean General Carlos Ibáñez names himself president
1933 Hermann Göring becomes premier of Prussia
1939 Hungary leaves League of Nations
1941 Germany blitzes Conventry, England
1941 Jewish Weekly newspaper taken control by Nazi's
1941 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets
1942 Distinguished Service Medal for Merchant Marines authorized
1943 Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft
1945 Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald, Germany
1945 SS burns & shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen
1945 US captures Tsugen Shima
1950 Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco
1950 US B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia
1951 President Harry Truman fires General Douglas McArthur
1956 Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites
1956 French government decides to sends 200,000 reservists to Algeria
1957 Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off & land vertically
1959 Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale hits his 2nd Opening Day homerun
1959 Dutch prince Bernhard visits Lockheed factory
1960 1st weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)
1961 Bob Dylan's 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village
1963 John XXIII encyclical "On peace in truth, justice, charity & liberty"
1963 Warren Spahn beats Mets 6-1 for his 328th win (most by a lefty)
1965 40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 & injuring 5,000
1966 Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire
1967 Harlem (NYC) voters defy Congress & reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr
1967 Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead", premieres
1968 President Lyndon Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act

1970 Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days(Houston..we have a problem)

1970 Beatles' "Let It Be", single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1972 Benjamin L Hooks, named to the FCC
1974 WWII war criminal JP Philippa arrested
1975 JP Parise 11 second OT goal-Islanders 1st playoff advance eliminates Rangers
1975 Hank Aaron returns as a Milwaukee player (Brewers)
1977 Ireland sets fishing zone at 50 mile
1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala
1980 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harrassment
1981 Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him
1981 Larry Holmes beats Trevor Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1981 Race riot in London area of Brixton
1984 Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair
1984 Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth
1984 Chinese troops invade Vietnam
1984 General Secretary Konstantin U Chernenko named President of Soviet Union
1986 Dodge Morgan completes nonstop sail solo around the world in 150 days
1986 Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 million km
1991 NYC's Museum of Broadcasting becomes "Museum of Radio & Television"
1991 UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration
1992 Country singer Lee Greenwood weds Miss Tennessee 1989 (Kimberly Payne)
1992 Euro-Disney opens near Paris France
1992 Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3
1993 Nine inmates and one guard were killed when a riot erupted at the maximum security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville. The standoff lasted 11 days.
1994 President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton paid $14,615 in federal and Arkansas back taxes and interest.
1997 The Air Force announced that despite an intensive nine-day search, it couldn't find a bomb-laden A-10 warplane that had disappeared with its pilot during a training mission over Arizona. (The plane's wreckage was later found in a Colorado mountainside.)
1997 In Italy, fire damaged the 500-year-old San Giovanni Cathedral, home of the Shroud of Turin, which some consider Christ's burial cloth.
2001 Ending a tense 11-day standoff, China agreed to free the 24 crew members of an American spy plane after President George W. Bush said he was "very sorry" for the death of a Chinese fighter pilot whose plane had collided with the American aircraft.

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Costa Rica : Juan Santamaria Day/Battle of Rivas Commemoration (1856)
Czechoslovakia : Resistance Movement Day (1945)
Egypt : Shan-et-Nissin
Liberia : Fast & Prayer Day
US :National Garden Week Begins
US : Barber Shop Quartet Day
Eight-Track Tape Day
National Woodworking Month

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Religious Observances
Sixth Day of Passover
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Leo I, pope [440-61], doctor
Roman Catholic : Memorial of St Stanislaus, bishop, martyr
Anglican : Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, bishop of New Zealand & Litchfield
Christian : Easter Sunday
Christian : Low (Quasimodo) Sunday, the Octave Day of Easter
Orthodox : Orthodox Easter (3/29 OS)

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Religious History
1506 The foundation stone of the new St. Peter's Basilica was laid under the patronage of Julius II. (The church was not completed, however, until 1626.)
1834 Birth of Marcus Dods, Scottish clergyman and biblical scholar. His published works in New Testament studies helped popularize modern biblical scholarship in Great Britain.
1836 English philanthropist George Mueller opened his famous orphanage on Wilson Street in Bristol. (By 1875, Mueller's orphanage was providing care for over 2,000 children.)
1941 French-born American Trappist monk Thomas Merton affirmed in his "Secular Journal": 'If we are willing to accept humiliation, tribulation can become, by God's grace, the mild yoke of Christ, His light burden.'
1967 The Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches and Ministers International, formed in Dallas in 1962, changed its name to Christ for the Nations. This charismatic missions agency specializes in fund-raising and support for church construction and Christian literature distribution worldwide.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer."

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What a Difference 30 Years Makes...
1970: Moving to California because it's cool.
2000: Moving to California because it's warm.

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New State Slogans...
Minnesota - old indian word meaning "weather suck um bad"

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Male Language Patterns...
"That's women's work," REALLY MEANS:
"It's dirty, difficult and thankless."

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Female Language Patterns...
"Is my butt fat"? REALLY MEANS,
"Tell me I'm beautiful."

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Good morning radu. Happy Easter.

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Happy Easter
from Sam & Snippy

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Good Morning Radu!

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Happy Easter.

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Good Morning aeronaut. ABout to sit down to our traditional Polish Easter breakfast.

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Wateree was carried nearly five-hundred yards inland, where she was deposited relatively intact.

Wow. Thanks aomagrat.