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Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park in Maryland’s Dorcester County for a formal ceremony making Tubman a one-star brigadier general in the state’s National Guard.

This actually seems insulting lol. She was like a sort of underground resistance fighter and they’re giving her the lowest ranked general in the national guard.

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i sincerely thought this was /c/fakenews at first…

i thought “oh people aren’t gonna like this one!”

but the united states truly is beyond parody

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Harriet Tubman is a hero but nowadays everything is fixed and political violence is not allowed.

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I’m sorry what?

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She fought for the Union during the US Civil war. Ran spy networks, lead at least one raid in the confederate territory with a couple of steam gunships and a lot of soldiers.

She was kind of ridiculously bad ass. Less nice old lady, more Solid Snake.

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She is indeed a badass that should be learned about in school alongside every abolitionist hero but this is a straight up

Kind of headline

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