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https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Untitled-design-2025-02-17T112020.717.png?w=370&h=194 370w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Untitled-design-2025-02-17T112020.717.png?w=308&h=161 308w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Untitled-design-2025-02-17T112020.717.png?w=50&h=26 50w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Untitled-design-2025-02-17T112020.717.png?w=150&h=79 150w" sizes="(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px" loading="lazy" fetchpriority="auto" alt="25 Ways this WWII ‘Simple Sabotage Field Manual’ will make you question your coworkers’ loyalties" /> </div> </a> <div class="post-content relative text-left"> <div class="post-tax-badges flex gap-2 items-center border-white pb-4 lg:pb-3.5" > <a href="https://www.wearethemighty.com/category/feature/" class="cat-name-badge font-tertiary font-semibold text-sm text-accent-900 leading-extra-tight no-underline hover:underline">Feature</a> </div> <a 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(Library of Congress)" /> </div> </a> <div class="post-content relative text-left"> <div class="post-tax-badges flex gap-2 items-center border-white pb-4 lg:pb-3.5" > <a href="https://www.wearethemighty.com/category/history/" class="cat-name-badge font-tertiary font-semibold text-sm text-accent-900 leading-extra-tight no-underline hover:underline">Feature</a> </div> <a class="card-post-title-link" href="https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/why-the-civil-war-battle-between-the-monitor-and-the-merrimack-was-so-epic/" > <h3 class="card-post-title font-primary font-bold text-base lg:text-xl text-secondary-900 leading-tight"> <span class="mobile lg:hidden hover-link"> Why the Civil War battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack was so epic </span> <span class="desktop hidden lg:inline-block hover-link">Why the Civil War battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack was so epic</span> </h3> </a> <p class="card-post-byline font-secondary font-semibold text-secondary-900 text-sm 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The flag was wet with lighter fluid but the men were unable to light their matches." /> </div> </a> <div class="post-content relative text-left"> <div class="post-tax-badges flex gap-2 items-center border-white pb-4 lg:pb-3.5" > <a href="https://www.wearethemighty.com/category/history/" class="cat-name-badge font-tertiary font-semibold text-sm text-accent-900 leading-extra-tight no-underline hover:underline">Entertainment</a> </div> <a class="card-post-title-link" href="https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/baseball-player-saved-old-glory/" > <h3 class="card-post-title font-primary font-bold text-base lg:text-xl text-secondary-900 leading-tight"> <span class="mobile lg:hidden hover-link"> That time a baseball player saved Old Glory from the torch </span> <span class="desktop hidden lg:inline-block hover-link">That time a baseball player saved Old Glory from the torch</span> </h3> </a> <p class="card-post-byline font-secondary font-semibold text-secondary-900 text-sm leading-tighter 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class="byline-segment"><span class="byline-text">By </span><a class="hover-link no-underline hover:underline" href="https://www.wearethemighty.com/authors/blake/">Blake Stilwell</a></span></span> </p> <p class="card-post-date hidden lg:inline-block font-secondary font-normal text-sm leading-tighter">Posted on Jun 18, 2024</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mb-3"> <div class="card-post more-from-author-post"> <a class="card-post-image-link block mb-4" aria-hidden tabindex="-1" href="https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/loyce-edward-deen-was-buried-at-sea-inside-his-plane/" > <div class="relative"> <img class="archive-post-thumb w-full aspect-thumbnail object-cover rounded-grid-post" src="https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1000w_q95-21.jpg?quality=85&w=675" srcset="https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1000w_q95-21.jpg 1000w, https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1000w_q95-21.jpg?w=300&h=200 300w, 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href="https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/touching-tomb-unknown-soldier-sentinels/" > <h3 class="card-post-title font-primary font-bold text-base lg:text-xl text-secondary-900 leading-tight"> <span class="mobile lg:hidden hover-link"> What happens if you try to touch the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier </span> <span class="desktop hidden lg:inline-block hover-link">What happens if you try to touch the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier</span> </h3> </a> <p class="card-post-byline font-secondary font-semibold text-secondary-900 text-sm leading-tighter mt-2"> <span class="recurrent-byline"><span class="byline-segment"><span class="byline-text">By </span><a class="hover-link no-underline hover:underline" href="https://www.wearethemighty.com/authors/blake/">Blake Stilwell</a></span></span> </p> <p class="card-post-date hidden lg:inline-block font-secondary font-normal text-sm leading-tighter">Updated on Mar 16, 2024</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mb-3"> <div class="card-post 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