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Big Dad News: Ten Previously Unreleased Civil War & WW2 Battles Just Dropped!

Your prayers for something easy to get your father on his birthday have been answered

Calder Holbrook
Published in
3 min readMay 7, 2021

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If you’re like me, you can’t be bothered to form a more complex picture of your father than the single interest that you know for a fact he has, wars. The problem is, the good, fun wars have been tapped. You got him Band Of Brothers. You got him Ken Burns’ The Civil War. And now, you’re running on fumes. What a shame that those wars only lasted a few monstrously bloody years apiece, huh?

That’s what you think! Unbeknownst to the American public, a secret US government policy was enacted to keep fighting towards no tangible war objectives for a minimum of six months past peace in each cool war! The records of the battles fought in those six months were kept top secret ever since. Until now, when unimaginative gift-giving children need them the most!

Your dad will love the book Stephen Ambrose secretly wrote about the campaign Douglas MacArthur secretly waged on the Australian homeland after high level talks with Japanese Emperor Hirohito to put away a few chapters of military history for a rainy day. After all, Japan has dads too! And each battle is tailor-made to affirm the principles your dad thinks made the Greatest…

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Calder Holbrook
The Haven

Calder Holbrook is an LA comedy writer, and an actor most recently seen in Peacock's A.P. Bio.