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94 - The Business Plot

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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The Medal of Honor

In 1915, he was sent to Haiti where he basically kicked the shit out of Haitian rebels. The last one by hand to hand combat that lasted for 20 minutes. For this, he received his second medal of honor. He then went into Mexico posing as a railroad official named Mr. Johnson. To invade a plan to invade Mexico. Instead of invading all of Mexico, the US decided to just invade VeracruzWhere it learned weapons were headed. Smell he helped lead a force that held the city for six months.

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