#old soldier | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

if-you-fan-a-fire · 6 months

Text

"A WOMAN SOLDIER," Kingston Daily Standard. November 7, 1913. Page 10. --- Of Irish birth She Fought In Many Battles - Dressed as Man ---- Albert D. J. Cashier, an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Quincy, Illinois, was discovered upon being admitted to the hospital of that institution, to be a woman, and the remarkable fact was established that for over fifty years she had worn man's clothing and concealed her sex. More than that she fought through three of the hardest battles of the American Civil War and innumerable lesser fights.

Now she draws a pension, and with feeble mind and body is waiting for the last roll call.

Her life is a mystery. She was born in Ireland on Christmas day, 1844. She is said to have crossed the Atlantic in boy's clothes as a stowaway. Soon afterward she entered the United States army. Even her name is unknown. She called herself "Albert Cashler," but all attempts to trace her identity have failed. She enlisted Aug. 6, 1862 at Belvidere, Ill., in the 95th Infantry, and was discharged Aug. 17, 1865. She did farm for two or three years at Belvidere, then disappeared. The next 40 years are her own secret. She is thought to have worked in a factory some where. Finally she became an automobile chauffeur and worked in that capacity until a couple of years ago, when her declining health made it necessary that she be cared for in a public institution. Only then was her secret discovered.

#illinois history #old soldier #male impersonator #cross dressing #men's clothing #history of feminities #history of masculinities #queer history #military veteran #military enlistment #united states history #american civil war #old age home #chaffeur

5 notes · View notes

heritageposts · 5 months

Text

The grandfather, who is also blind as a result of severe diabetes, feels isolated despite having his family around him. "If an air strike targets the house or the neighbourhood, I cannot move, not even using the wheelchair. I am completely paralysed, I cannot see and I can barely hear and move my arms. What has helped me is that we evacuated by car when the situation was less dangerous," Abujubein told MEE. . . . "What did the world that has long talked about human rights and the rights of people with disabilities do for us? My granddaughter has a subject about human rights in school. The first time they learned about people with disabilities, she was happy that she could reflect on me," Abu Jubein laughed. "She came to me repeating what she had learned about their rights and how they should be given a special treatment." "Now where is this special treatment? Did the world at least call for the evacuation of the displaced from Gaza until the end if the attacks?" "Even hospitals are targeted. When the Israeli occupation started bombing hospitals and then besieged al-Shifa Hospital, we thought that this would be the start of an international revolution against the occupation, because the protection of patients and children inside hospitals is the core value of human rights." "But, surprisingly, nothing happened."

. . . full article on MME (18 Nov 2023)

#palestine #israel #gaza #disability #there's also a story earlier in the article about a sister having to carry her six-year-old disabled brother for several kilometers #deciding to leave his wheelchair at home because they'd heard stories of IOF soldiers who wouldn't let people pass with anything #but their ID card #the whole thing is just harrowing to read #but the image of the granddaughter learning about disability rights at school and excitedly relaying them to her disabled grandfather...

3K notes · View notes

texaschainsawmascara · 1 year

Text

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Letterman, ‘94

10K notes · View notes

hononara · 2 months

Text

#tf2 soldier #tf2 #team fortress 2 #soldier is my bbgrl #coquettish war crimer old man :3

1K notes · View notes

jackedknife · 1 month

Note

Could you draw a tf2 character lineup?

The slowest drawer on this website reports on duty🫡

First time drawing the whole team together woo!

1K notes · View notes

maria-tries · 4 months

Text

wake up babe it’s 2024 which means happy 10th birthday groundbreaking cinematic milestone Captain America The Winter Soldier (a gift for @wingedcorgi ❤️)

#steve rogers #bucky barnes #stucky #stevebucky #captain america #the winter soldier #marvel #mcu #fanart #mariart #it feels GOOD to come back to my original old men yaoi (well not that old yet here but they will be)

2K notes · View notes

egophiliac · 11 months

Text

hold your children

I'm just exploding in slow motion until the rest of episode 7 comes out

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #sometimes a family is a centuries-old fae who retired from being a Fantasy Soldier to become an eccentric grandpa #the human he tripped over in the woods and raised into the world's sleepiest himbo #a socially awkward dragon prince who's just REALLY into architecture #and also sebek is there

6K notes · View notes

greencarnation · 5 months

Text

eleven is fascinating to me because he came right off the back of tens horrible traumatic breakdown after he lost everything and he immediately tried to establish himself as the opposite of that. he is funny and goofy and almost childlike, and he bulldozes on in his adventures with amy like nothing happened at all. but then something happens and his masks slips and it's like oh! the core of this man is still anger. he is so so angry all of the time and this façade is the only thing stopping him from being consumed by it. he isn't over any of it and he hasn't moved on. he is wearing a fez and laughing but under that all that exists is age old anger and grief and it is going to consume him