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Final hour of the Jesse Kelly show on a wonderful Wednesday.

Hoping to finish up Andersonville here in just a moment because it's a little bit gross,

but that's the story of Andersonville.

It's a brutal story.

And then we'll get to other things like the children of American billionaires being awful. We'll figure out what's, how did a police officer get to be a police officer when he's an illegal? We're parking a bunch of Marines off the coast of Venezuela. All that emails and so much more in the final hour of the Jesse Kelly show on a Wednesday.

Now, in case you're just now joining us, you missed an hour of the history of Andersonville,

P-O-W camp during the Civil War.

I'm not going to recap at all.

Let's get back to what we were discussing.

33,000 men are stuffed in a 10,000 man camp. There's no shelter. There's no nothing. Now men are starving. They're dying of disease. If you look at pictures of them, which I wouldn't recommend before dinner, they all look like Holocaust survivors, every one of them. It's really hard to look at. It's very hard to look at. You're dying. You're dying of disease. You're

essentially pooping yourself to death. You're dying. And there is something, and I forget who I read,

it might have been Soltz and it's been a while since I read it where he talked about, he was a prisoner in a Russian gulag, I'll put it that

way. And he talked about, you know, people when they go through extreme hardship, if they

discuss how brave and wonderful their fellow man was during it,

then they haven't gone through enough hardship yet.

And he said, this is why.

If things get truly bad enough,

there's not much bravery to be found anymore. There's mankind, human beings, when faced with

misery and imminent death, will turn quite terrible if things are bad enough. And look, I could go through individual stories here.

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