Yesterday, I read that on June 1st during the War of 1812, naval commander James Lawrence who was fatally wounded, told his crew "to fire faster and not to give up the ship." This is the source of the well known motto "Don't give up the ship."
But it occured to me that the most important part of that quote came first which was "fire faster!". The don't give up the ship part was just a little icing. What he really, really wanted was for them to FIRE FASTER Dadgummitt! Faster!
I dunno, it was just a random odd thought of mine.... I think we immortalized the wrong part of the quote...
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