Always is a real stretch, but I get your point. The reason is that being angry is easier than being happy.

• Makes shit up
• It doesn’t make sense
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You don’t try to assassinate people for altruistic reasons, and I have no ancestors that killed Spaniards on the 4th of July.

Who’s to say he didn’t just want to die and take someone important out with him. In the mental state he was in at the time, he may not have even cared about politics.

Put it in the microwave and then take it out when it starts popping slowly. I’ve never met anyone else that does that for microwave popcorn and it works perfectly fine.

Wood is definitely better than nothing, but I don’t really see a situation in which this thing would need protection against small arms anyway. Unless something has already gone horribly wrong, those small arms are a significant distance from your artillery. At that range, they are already effectively worthless because their lack of rifling makes them horribly inaccurate.

If I had to guess, you would mainly be worried about union sharpshooters (maybe) and artillery. At that point the only real advantage of the wood is the obstruction of sight.

Wood still wasn’t strong enough to sustain a lot of fire even from those rifles. The confederacy just didn’t have enough iron.