Gene Schnar @GeneSchnar

Dad, History/Journalism Teacher, Basketball Coach, Photographer, Writer, Transplanted Chicagoan, Proud grad of Indiana University Anaheim Hills, CA Joined May 2009

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Chronic Hoosier @ChronicHoosier

13 hours ago

I'm on hand tonight at Morganstern to heckle @ZachOsterman as he & @michaelniziolek share their book with the hometown crowd. I spy the esteemed Andy Graham in the crowd as well.

Zach Osterman @ZachOsterman

20 hours ago

Or you can join us tonight at @morgsbooks, where there will be copies available, and @michaelniziolek and I will talk about the book, the season and the story. My kids will probably be causing ruckus somewhere as well. Can't wait.

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Gene Schnar @GeneSchnar

16 hours ago

@themartinpod Mom and Dad, my children, TR, Coach Bob Knight, my players, and of course The West Wing. It’s an eclectic list, yet it works for me.

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Gene Schnar @GeneSchnar

16 hours ago

@LemonLymancom “This is fun. We’re roughing it.” Toby’s crankiness is priceless. 🤣Hoosier Hospitality. 👍

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no context the west wing @LemonLymancom

16 hours ago

Are we out of gas? DIESEL.

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Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC

16 hours ago

Ford’s Theatre, as it looked during Lincoln's time:

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Gene Schnar @GeneSchnar

20 hours ago

@lippyent Well, he was my elementary school principal, so everything was about education. Workaholic, perfectionist, home improvement, yet always found time for me, helping me build my Soap Box Derby racer & taking us on family road trips, which always had a history lesson. Loving & proud.

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Gene Schnar @GeneSchnar

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@gtconway3d

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Gene Schnar @GeneSchnar

21 hours ago

@samstein It really is. 🤬

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Knott's Berry Farm @knotts

a day ago

triple threat. 🎢 #KnottsBerryFarm

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Steve Cortes @SteveCortes

2 days ago

Good morning. Today in 1776, patriot Nathan Hale was hanged by the British. His last words: “I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” Pic of his statue at Tribune Tower, Chicago.

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Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT

2 days ago

On this morning 250 years ago, the British hanged a 21-year-old American schoolteacher as a spy, and in trying to make him disappear quietly, they accidentally made him immortal. His name was Nathan Hale, and it is worth sitting with just the last few hours of his life. He had been caught the night before, behind British lines on Long Island, carrying notes on enemy positions hidden in his shoes. There was no real trial. A man out of uniform with military intelligence on him was a spy by the rules of war, and the sentence for spying was death by hanging, no ceremony, no honor. General Howe ordered it done in the morning. What we know of that morning comes mostly from the enemy, from British officers who were there, and it is the small human cruelties that stay with you. Hale asked for a clergyman to attend him in his final hours. The request was refused. He asked for a Bible. That too was denied. He was a devout young man about to die, and they would not give him even that comfort. A British officer named Montresor, watching, was troubled enough by the young man's composure to later make sure his story was told. In his last moments Hale was allowed to write a couple of letters, one to his mother, one to a fellow officer. He wrote them, and then the British provost marshal, a notoriously brutal man named Cunningham, took those letters and destroyed them in front of him. The reason given was chilling in its pettiness: so that the rebels should not know they had a man in their ranks who could die with such firmness. They did not just want to kill him. They wanted to erase him. Then they marched him to the gallows, and there, according to the accounts that survived, this young schoolteacher who had failed at the one dangerous mission he ever attempted, stood calmly and spoke about duty and country with a steadiness that unnerved the men sent to kill him. The famous words attributed to him, that he only regretted having but one life to lose for his country, may be polished or borrowed from a play he loved. But everyone who was there agreed on the essential truth beneath the wording: he met his death without flinching, and he made even his executioners remember him. And that is the irony that redeems the whole sad morning. Cunningham burned the letters so no one would know how bravely Hale died. It did not work. The story got out anyway, carried by the very enemies who watched it, and a young man the British tried to erase became one of the most enduring symbols of the Revolution, honored two and a half centuries later, on this exact day, as the first American to die spying for his country. They denied him a Bible and a chaplain and burned his last words, and still they could not make him small.

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Indiana Bison @TheIndianaBison

3 days ago

Happy Monday, here’s Charlie Becker going 79 yards for a TD. #iufb

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Top Tier @TopTierStateX

a day ago

College Football Week 4 TV schedule

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The Bison Mafia @thebisonmafia

2 days ago

Thinking about the last time Memorial Stadium hosted a night game on national television.

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Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans

2 days ago

Premiered on NBC 27yrs ago today. THE WEST WING (2000)

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natty champ amanda 🏆 @anpiu33

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Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans

2 days ago

“One last thing. Whilst you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the ignorant tight-ass club, in this building when the President stands, nobody sits.” THE WEST WING (2000)

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Headquarters @HQNewsNow

2 days ago

Barack Obama at his last press briefing with reporters, 2017: "I have enjoyed working with all of you. That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics. You're supposed to ask me tough questions. You're not supposed to be complimentary, but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power."

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Chronic Hoosier @ChronicHoosier

a day ago

My friend wrote a book about the undefeated, national champion Indiana Hoosiers. Every word of that is such an amazing sentence to type out in real life. Cheers to everyone involved in it!!! Can't wait to crack this open tonight! Get yours here: a.co/d/0aaKi7En #iufb