Category: Haunted Battlefields
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Trick-or-Treating Gone Wrong.
Read more: Trick-or-Treating Gone Wrong.There is a special place in my heart for trick-or-treating. Hanging out with friends, sneaking off to the rich neighborhoods to get better candy, and hoping mom and dad find a razor blade in one of the apples I received while inspecting every item in my bag. I drank the two cans of beer I…
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Rich Autumn Rituals
Read more: Rich Autumn RitualsHalloween, as a holiday, originated from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, celebrated in regions in Ireland and Scotland over 2,000 years ago to mark the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter, when it was believed the boundary between the living and the dead thinned. The American tradition of Halloween evolved…
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Two-Thousand-Yard Stare
Read more: Two-Thousand-Yard StareThe “thousand-yard stare” (sometimes referred to as the “two-thousand-yard stare”) is a term describing the distant, focused daze of combat participants who have experienced severe trauma or shell shock. It was popularized and ideologized by a 1944 painting titled The Two Thousand Yard Stare by war artist Tom Lea, who embedded with U.S. Marines during…