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Trump's Plan for the North Korean Summit: Play It by Ear, Who Needs Preparation?

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Jay C6/07/2018 6:14:02 pm PDT

re: #8 William Lewis

Renault FT. The brain child of a car maker and an artillery officer, it changed the world.

Now, 100 years later, one has been restored to running condition.

As an old tanker, this warms my heart.

the wwi tank that helped change warfare forever

I don’t know how to embed BBC video but if you have an interest in old machines, it’s interesting to watch.

I don’t recall where I read it (and the BBC doesn’t mention), but i heard that when US troops invaded Afghanistan in 2002, they found a couple of FT’s in an armory in Kabul: unused, but still functional. Which had to have been the last of those babies still on active duty, as it were….