Why is Michigan called: The Wolverine State?

WHY IS MICHIGAN CALLED THE WOLVERINE STATE:

Wolverines are not native to the state of Michigan. Wolverines do, however, live in Canada, Alaska and other really cold places. But, not MI. The few that live in MI are either in a zoo, owned illegally by people as pets or escaped from peoples houses who had them as illegal pets, etc. The ones in MI and all other Northern states were either brought there by people or they walked over the Canadian boarder by themselves.
The real reason for the nickname comes from the: Toledo War between Michigan and Ohio in 1835.
The city of Toledo is in Ohio, but, it is right on the edge of Michigan.
In 1835, the government of Michigan said, "I don't think that city officially belongs to Ohio. We need to claim it as part of our state!"
Wolverines have a reputation for being extremely aggressive animals. They will often attack other animals that are just minding their own business and not trying to harm anything. The Wolverine will attack the other animal for seemingly no good reason at all.
The state of Ohio was just minding their own business and not posing a threat to anybody. One day, the government in Michigan told the state Militia to attack Ohio.
It was quite a surprise when the Michigan Militia invaded Toledo and said, "We, the people of Michigan are taking the city over! The city belongs to us now!"
In 1936, President Jackson put an end to the war. He decided that since Ohio was already a state and Michigan wasn't and since he wanted Ohio's electoral votes in the upcoming election, he would let Ohio keep the city. In exchange, Michigan became an official state. The state also was given about Two Thirds of the Upper Peninsula. It sounded like a bad deal at the time, because nobody wanted the Upper Peninsula. But, it has a lot of: Copper, Iron and Timber. So the state took advantage of that.
After the war, some people in Ohio said, "The state of Michigan has the mentally and temperament of a Wolverine! MI should be known as: The Wolverine State!"
The name Wolverine State stuck. Michigan has had that name ever since.
Eventually, The University of Michigan adopted the name: "Michigan Wolverines".
That's how MI got that name.

Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Weapons:

If we ever do have a WWIII,
it won't necessarily be a nuclear war!
If there ever is a WWIII, it will very likely start out, the same way as WWII and a lot of other wars started: Just a regular, conventional war. Two countries will decide they don't like each other. Those countries will grab their guns, tanks, troops, etc, one country will invade the other. Then, those countries will ask for help from their allied countries and possibly even places like the UN.
Once other countries join forces, someone will decide to attack an innocent country that doesn't want to get involved, just like in WWII, Japan messed with the wrong country and got their butt kicked!
If, however, all countries play fair and obey the laws that say you can't use nuclear weapons at all, unless another country launches one at you first, then, no nuclear weapons weapons would be used at all in the first place! In the US, we can use them in retaliation for the use of chemical weapons by another country, against the US.
In fact, ironically, the US and most other countries that have nuclear weapons, including: Russia, Canada, India and China, just to name a few, have them and keep them well maintained and ready at all times to PREVENT WWIII from ever happening in the first place! NOT so that we can fight a nuclear war!
The US invented both Atomic and nuclear weapons.
Atomic bombs ended WWII, but, those are no longer used. Soon after the war, the US invented nukes. Russia soon followed, along with other countries.
Since the US and Russia didn't get along at the time that nukes we're invented, they thought, " since the US has nuclear weapons, we need to have them to, so we can defend ourselves."
The US did not teach Russia how to make nuclear bombs, they had to figure that out themselves. They did!
Once the US found out that Russia had their own nukes now, the US no longer had an advantage and had that much power over the Russians. The Two governments had to have a talk with each other now and they both agreed on one thing:
Mutually Assured Destruction!
The US President told the Russian government, "If you ever launch a nuclear missile on the US, it's over, because, if you launch even one at me, I'll hit you with a whole bunch of nukes!"
The Russian government said, "I understand that. The same applies to you! If you launch one at me, I'll do the same to you! Launch several more than what you launched at me!"
Either way, they both agreed, it would be a bad day and possibly the end of the world! They called it: "Mutually Assured Destruction".
Eventually, other countries learned how to make them to.
Bill Clinton wanted to make some kind of a trade at one time with N Korea. So, of all things he could of chosen to trade, he gave them the plans of how to build a working Nuclear bomb!
Russia eventually created the largest and most powerful nuclear bomb ever: The Tsar Bomba. Much bigger than any US nuke!
Then most countries around the world signed a treat saying that they will no longer test nuclear weapons at all. This includes testing of nukes everywhere: Above ground, under ground, above or under water, suspended or launched into the air or anywhere in outer space.
The problem with a treat, however, is that it is just a piece of paper with signatures on it. Most treaties only last a certain amount of time and they have to be renewed. When one President signs a treat for anything, that ruins things for every President after them! If the next President wants to test nukes, for example, in this case, now they can't, because, a former President signed a treat, making it illegal. Now the next Presidents after the one who signed the contract can't do it. But, they are going to think, "I should be able to do it, because my signature is not on that treaty! I'll find a loophole in the treaty and I'll do it anyway!"
Treaties get violated all the time!
There is a treaty that protects Antarctica. It says that nobody can drill for oil or test nukes or do other potentially harmful things on that continent. Also, nobody, except: Scientists, government officials, military and a few other, similar people are allowed to explore the Antarctic Continent. There are probably a few places where regular, civilian tourists can step foot on the land, just so they can tell their friends they have been to Antarctica and walk around on the ice glacier.
However, the easiest way to win a nuclear war would be to launch 1,000 nukes on Antarctica! That would cause massive flooding, Tsunamis and severe, global warming, just to name a few problems! But, that would kill Everybody in every country, rather quickly!
When you see the President on TV, you often see one person staying close by, with a brief case handcuffed to his wrist. That is because, everything in that brief case is so important, so top secret and would be very dangerous if it got into the wrong hands.
I don't know what all is in there, but, one of the most important and dangerous things in there is: The codes to all the nuclear missiles in the US and all of them that the US has in other countries.
Other countries know that the US President has easy access to the nuclear missile codes at all times, 24-7-365! That is another deterrent to the commies and terrorist countries launching a nuke at us.
The most recent nuclear weapons test is suspected to of been in North Korea, just a few years ago. They deny having ever built and/or tested a nuke. However, the US and a lot of other civilized countries are constantly watching N Korea. We are watching them from outer space, on the and under the ocean, from S Korea and other countries, etc.
It only takes the International Space Station about 90 minutes to completely circle the Earth! Don't you think Astronauts and Russian Cosmonauts could see the big mushroom cloud out the window of the ISS? However, that would be only, if someone were looking out the window at the right time and when they were over N Korea.
The satellites in space could also see it and, in several different countries, including the the US, they have devices that can detect the radiation and other things that are a tell tale sign of a nuclear explosion anywhere in the world. All the nuke detection systems around the world detected a nuclear blast somewhere on Earth. Nobody owned up to it. So it was investigated and, the evidence showed that it came from N Korea.
These days, there are some people who don't like nuclear weapons. They are trying to fight to get rid of them and have every country sign a treaty to get rid of all nukes and never make anymore ever again!
That's not going to happen!
Like I said before, a treaty is just a piece of paper! It is not worth anymore than the paper and the ink that it was signed with!
People and countries violate treaties all the time!
Besides, with so many unethical countries out there that support terrorism and they don't like the US or a lot of other countries, we better have something to defend our country's with!
Some countries, I would never trust, Even if they did sign a treaty like that! They'd sign it, but, still keep some nukes. The US needs to keep some nukes, just to prevent those countries from attacking.
However, there are a few countries that have signed a treat saying that they, in their own country, will not have any nukes. The government and people of those countries agree with and support the ban. Maybe, they are near other countries that do have nuclear weapons. In that case, if a nuclear missile we're launched on their country, it could hit one of those neighboring countries. Even if it hit the intended target, the radiation, fallout, explosion itself, etc would affect the countries next to them, so, those countries would probably retaliate by launching their own nuclear missiles.

For anyone asking: Why does the US need to have a SPACE FORCE?

FOR ANYONE WHO IS WONDERING WHY WE NEED A SPACE FORCE:

    I'm pretty sure there was a time when people said: "Why do we need a Navy? Why do we need an Air Force? What good are those going to do? That's a waste of money!
Why are they spending Billions of dollars creating Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces, Army Rangers, Delta Force and similar things? That's a waste of money! They are wasting my tax dollars on this!
Why are they spending so much money on building nuclear weapons? That could destroy the whole world in just a few minutes!
The enemy can and does attack the US and other countries from the air and water. That's why we need Air Force and Navy.
There's things going on in the world everyday that you and I will never know about. We have enemies all over the world. People are constantly thinking of things they can do to attack another country. Delta Force is a top secret military organization that, up until Clinton was in office, we weren't even supposed to know about. The government denied its existence completely. Bill Clinton hinted that there might be an organization like that, but that's all I'm going to say.
They are constantly protecting the world from terrorists.
Navy Seals and Special Forces take most of the missions that are way too difficult, dangerous and top secret for any other military units to take on.
SEALS killed Bin Laden, for instance.
The reason we have nukes is to PREVENT nuclear wars from ever happening in the first place. How? N. Korea, Russia, Iran and all other countries that don't like the US, they all know that the US invented both Atomic and Nuclear weapons. They also know that the US has more of them than most other countries. I'm sure there's probably a country somewhere in the world that probably has more than we do, but, the US has more than 99.999% of other countries in the world. They know better than to launch a nuke at the US or our allies. Because, the US can and will track their missiles coming in from tracking devices in space and on the ground. If they launch ONE single nuke at us, the President will first, launch about 20, multiwarhead missiles on their country and turn them into a pile of rubble!
Technology is changing really fast all over the world and we need a new way to fight crime, terror, illegal immigration, drugs, nuclear war, the list goes on and on.
Just like Science Fiction movies from the 1980's and even ling before that predicted, we would be in space by the year 2000. Well, we're late getting into space! 18 years late, but, it was inevitably going to happen.
Not only should we have a military presence in space, but also, a lot more Scientists should be up there studying the Earth and it's atmosphere.
As soon as the US gets a military presence in space, other countries will do the same. Our enemies will be up there to.
From outer space, you can see an entire continent, so, instead of an airplane flying over the ground between 300 feet to 5 miles off the ground, they have satellites and troops 20,000 miles or more above the ground. They will be able to look down and see everything. The enemy won't be able to hide very easily on the ground anymore.
The US and rest of the world will be forced to invent new technologies to keep up with the Space Force. When a Scientist tries to invent something specific, they will have to work on it for a long time. In the process, they will accidentally discover and invent other things. That is how we got the Lazer and the Microwave along with Millions of other things.
There is a lot of "Space Junk" flying around in space. It's all over up there. A lot is in orbit around Earth. That could crash in on us and cause a lot of problems. Space Force can protect us from that and try to find a way to clean it up.
They will watch for Metiors and yes, even UFOs!
Space Force will be above the atmosphere of Earth, so, they will have a better, much clearer view of outer space. That will help us study Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry and other things.
They can even send FBI agents up to watch down on the ground, not just in the US, but, in other countries to, and they can track criminals before they run too far away. Then, hopefully, it won't take 10 years to find them, like it did to get Bin Laden!
There's probably a Million other good reasons to have a Space Force.

TOM DULA (Pronounced: Dooly) The true story behind the song.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BtSzcKZGzDs&sns=fb

Tom Dula was a former Confederate soldier (1845-1868).
After the war, Tom resumed a relationship with Ann Foster. He eventually slept with Ann's sister Laura Foster. She became pregnant. Tom and Laura decided to elope.
Laura left home one morning on her dad's horse intending to run away and marry Tom and she was never seen alive again.
Laura's body was eventually found in a shallow grave in the woods. She had been stabbed in the chest.
Tom claimed he was innocent, However, he was convicted of her murder and hanged.
Somebody eventually wrote a song about the murder of Laura and execution of Tom. Nobody knows who originally wrote the song, however, in 1958, a band called: The Kingston Trio recorded the song and it became one of their most famous songs.
Until recently, I never knew that the song was based on a true story or even that Tom Dula was a real person. I always thought it was just an old song.