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hi just a quick uh video message here

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because i've been grading some of your

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uh some of your work and it's been

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really good

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really happy with it

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if there's been a few missteps i've

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noted those and the individual comments

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for your assignments but

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i love the war of 1812 and seeing um

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seeing all of you use the example of the

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the surrender and capture of fort

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detroit

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as an example in the assessment activity

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reminded me of

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um it's not a great story but it's a

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story

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a few years ago i went down i did sort

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of a a two-day road trip

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of battlefields battlefields of the old

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northwest

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which is just about the dorkiest thing i

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could do but i

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my first stop was the river raisin

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battlefield down in monroe county

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right on the sort of michigan ohio

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ohio border probably about

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you know realistically two hours south

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of us here in the uh

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the flint area and there was a a

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presentation by

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a a local war of 1812 historian

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who with a with a you know just dead

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straight face

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made the argument that um that the the

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surrender of fort detroit was was um

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was the smartest thing to do was the

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right thing to do and that the

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the general who surrendered the fort um

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should not have been

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you know punished or called out for it

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or continued to be reviled for his uh

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his incompetence

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and cowardice but rather hail is a hero

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for taking the steps necessary to

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you know protect the civilians that were

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sheltering in the fort

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and i um i don't i don't have a good

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poker face

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at the best of times i i just my

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expression is just you know

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out there and i but even i

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was i i was a little rude i just started

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laughing

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from the back of the room i tried to

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keep it quiet so it sort of came out

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like a guy trying to keep a laugh

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quiet but just it sort of burst it out

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and a bunch of uh but

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old people turned and sort of glared at

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i mean older than me right

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um really really old people turned and

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sort of glared at me so

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dumb little story of uh of me kind of

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being a jerk

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at a war of 1812 battlefields so have a