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The Best Years of Our Lives
Fred and Peggy are attracted to each other, and when she stops by his work he asks her to meet him for lunch. Afterwards he walks her to her car, and though he knows it is wrong, kisses her. Fred's relationship with Peggy puts him at odds with Al, who, despite his affection for Fred, does not want his daughter to be involved with a married man. Meanwhile, Fred's wife Marie, frustrated with his lack of success and missing her past nightlife, tells Fred she is getting a divorce. Heartbroken and seeing no future in Boone City, Fred decides to pack up and catch the next plane out. While waiting at the airport he walks into an aircraft boneyard, where he climbs into one of the B-17 bombers being stripped there. Sitting at the bombardier's site, his mind returns him to 1944, and another bombing run over Germany. He is roused out of his nightmare by a work crew foreman, who informs him that the planes are being demolished for use in the growing pre-fab housing industry. Fred asks him if they need any help, and is hired. Later, and now divorced, Fred serves as best man at the wedding of Homer and Wilma, where he sees Peggy and they reunite.

Snowed Inn
Sumith also noted the charm of the small town setting: "The movie showcases the warmth that defines the holiday season. While the exuberance of Christmastide awakens harmony between Jenna and Kevin, the audiences are introduced to the fascinating town that witnesses their blooming romance."

The movie showcases the warmth that defines the holiday season. While the exuberance of Christmastide awakens harmony between Jenna and Kevin, the audiences are introduced to the fascinating town that witnesses their blooming romance.

Smale has written a number of holiday screen plays.

Smale has written successful Christmas films like Snowed-Inn Christmas and On the Twelfth Day of Christmas and is currently a freelance screenwriter through Integral Artists.

On the formulaic parameters of writing Christmas movie scripts?

Kent Steffes
Steffes

College career
In their first post-Olympic tournament, May-Treanor and Walsh extended their winning streak to 112 matches, but it came to an end on August 31 with a 21–19, 10–21, 25–23 loss to Olympic teammates Elaine Youngs and Nicole Branagh in the AVP (Association of Volleyball Professionals) Crocs Cup Shootout in Mason, Ohio. The defeat also ended the pair’s streak of 19 straight titles—quite an accomplishment for a team that had started playing together only in 2001.

Misty May grew up in California and played indoor volleyball at Long Beach State, where she led her team to the 1998 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) title in her senior year. She then played for the U.S. national indoor team at the Pan Am Games, after which she decided to try her hand at beach volleyball instead. She teamed with Holly McPeak at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, finishing fifth after losing in the quarterfinals.

Meanwhile, 1.9-m (6-ft 2-in) Kerri Lee Walsh helped Stanford University win consecutive NCAA indoor volleyball titles in 1996 and 1997; she was named national co-player of the year in 1999. She moved on to play for the U.S. indoor team at the Sydney Games, finishing fourth.


 * May and Walsh formed a partnership on the beach circuit in 2001, finishing the season with the number five ranking in the world. In 2002 the team reached the number one ranking. They continued their dominance in 2003, winning all eight tournaments they entered and a then-record 90 straight matches, including the world championships where they upset the defending world champions from Brazil in the final.

Following the retirement of partner Misty May Treanor in 2012, Walsh teamed with April Ross. She went on to break the career record for most wins by a female professional volleyball player when she won the FIVB Grand Slam in Xiamen, China. The win gave Walsh the 113th title of her career, breaking the old mark set by her former partner Misty May-Treanor.

In the 2004 Olympics, the team of Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor earned their first gold medal for the US without losing a single game. They went on to repeat this feat in 2008, making it their 108thconsecutive win together.

Kerri Walsh plays professional beach volleyball on the U.S. AVP Tour and internationally on the FIVB World Tour. On July 23, 2006, Walsh topped $1 million in career earnings.

In high school Walsh played indoor volleyball at Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, California, sometimes against current partner Mist May-Treanor. She graduated in 1996.

Walsh was born on August 15, 1978 in Santa Clara, California. She is the daughter of Tim and Margie Walsh. Walsh’s father, who is six feet, eight inches in height, played minor league baseball with the Oakland A’s organization, as well as semi-pro basketball. Her mother was a volleyball MVP at Santa Clara University. Walsh has an older brother, Marte, and two younger sisters, Kelli and KC.

Walsh met her husband, Casey Jennings, in 2000 on the day Misty May-Treanor “auditioned” Walsh as her new partner. They were married on December 4, 2005 in Palm Springs, California. Walsh currently resides in Hermosa Beach, California.

Charleston Campaign

 * [[Battle of Secessionville, 16 June 1862
 * [[First Battle of Fort Wagner, 11 July 1862
 * [[Battle of Grimball's Landing, 16 July 1862
 * [[Second Battle of Fort Wagner, 18 July 1862
 * [[First Battle of Charleston Harbor, 7 April 1863
 * [[Second Battle of Charleston Harbor, late summer of 1863

Robert Shaw
With June coming to a close there were fears in camp that the 54th would not be allowed to participate in combat actions. In a letter Shaw wrote to General George C. Strong, he asserted "It seems to me quite important that the colored soldiers should be associated as much as possible with the white troops, in order that they may have other witnesses besides their own officers to what they are capable of doing."

On 30 June the regiment was mustered to receive pay. The quartermaster had been instructed to pay the men the same rate as what was paid to the men in the "contraband" units, 10 dollars a month instead of the standard 13 dollars paid to volunteers. Shaw wrote to Andrew about this on 2 July, and pointed out that this was expressly against the agreed upon terms which the men volunteered under. Shaw joined in with his unit on their boycott until this inequality was rectified. The enlisted men of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry and its sister unit, the 55th Massachusetts, refused pay until Congress finally granted them full pay in August 1864, with back pay extending back to when they first joined the army.

Charleston campaign
The X Corps was in the area to conduct a campaign against Charleston. Though the harbor had been blockaded, it was a hub of southern resistance and of political importance as the place of the outbreak of the war. Charleston harbor was defended by two rings of forts, with the most critical fort being Fort Sumter. The northern portion of Morris island offered an excellent firing position into the harbor. The Confederates placed a battery there on Cummings Point to aide in the defense of the harbor, naming it Battery Gregg. In Union hands, it would also be an excellent position from which to bombard Fort Sumter. The Confederates had foreseen this and defended the approach to Cummings Point with an earthen redoubt that was built just south of the battery on the northern portion of the island. Known as Battery Wagner or Fort Wagner, the defensive position was heavily gunned and stretched across the entire width of the northern end of Morris Island. Approaching the fort from the south, the western half of the island was swampland, confining the movement of troops to a sandy section of beach on the eastern or ocean side of the island.

In early June Hunter was replaced, and General Quincy Adams Gillmore assumed command of both X Corps and the Department of the South. An engineer by trade, Gillmore was well known for his capture of Fort Pulaski. This was accomplished with his effective use of newly designed long range guns, which he used to pummel the fort. After a day's bombardment a breach that developed in the wall exposed the fort's powder magazine to direct fire. Finding his position untenable and wanting to avoid the loss of life that would occur should the magazine explode, the fort's commander surrendered. It was captured after just a day, and with the loss of only one man on each side. Fort Wagner, however, was a different type of objective.

On 6 July Shaw wrote Strong asking for his formation be allowed to participate in combat. The 54th was sent to neighboring James Island as part of a force to draw Confederate forces away from Fort Wagner. Arriving on the island on 8 July, the regiment and other forces maneuvered there for a number of days to threaten the Confederate defenders of Charleston.

On 11 July Gillmore made his move on Fort Wagner. The attack was made by the 7th Connecticut Infantry. Supported by a heavy naval bombardment, the assault jumped off at dawn, moving forward through a thick morning fog which helped to conceal their advance. However as the attackers reached the fort they were met with stiff resistance, and were forced back with heavy losses. The regiment lost 339 men, with 123 wounded, 49 killed, and 167 missing. Against this the defenders suffered 12 casualties. Gillmore considered his next move.

Meanwhile the Confederates moved against James Island. On 16 July they attacked, with the goal of encircling and destroying part of the Union forces there. The men of the 10th Connecticut Infantry were in an exposed position, and in jeopardy of being cut off. The Confederate efforts to get around them were checked by the men of the 54th Massachusetts, who rebuffed a series of attacks while the 10th Connecticut was withdrawn. The 54th suffered 43 casualties, with 14 killed, 17 wounded, and 12 others lost to capture, but the 10th Connecticut was saved. The following day the Union forces were pulled off the island.

During the evening of the 17th the 54th was to board the steam transport "General Hunter" and return to Morris Island. However, only a single row boat with a capacity of 30 was available to move the men from shore to the steamer. As it rained through the night, Shaw stayed with his men all night on the 17th as they were boarded on the "General Hunter" to be transported back to Morris Island.

Shaw and his men arrived on Morris Island wet and tired just as Gillmore was completing his plans for a second attempt on Fort Wagner. He would use his naval forces to pummel the fort all through the day, moving a regiment up at dusk to the beach approach to the fort. They would wait there in the sand till nightfall, when they would make their attack. Union planners estimated the battery would be defended with about 300 men.

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Shaw volunteered the 54th to spearhead the assault. They would approach with bayonets fixed and muskets loaded, but were to hold fire until they reached the parapet. All through the 18th Fort Wagner was subjected to a heavy bombardment from naval forces just off shore. The defenders sheltered most of the garrison in bombproofs all through the day, sending up a few men at great risk to fire and reload the fort's heavy guns.

In the late afternoon the 54th moved up into position with about 600 men. The shelling continued after the sun had set. In the darkness of the early night Shaw led his men into battle, shouting "Forward, Fifty-Fourth, forward!" The defenders scrambled up to their gun positions. He mounted a parapet and urged his men forward, but was shot through the chest three times and died almost instantly. According to the Color Sergeant of the 54th, he was shot and killed early in the battle while trying to lead the unit forward and fell on the outside of the fort. Some Confederate reports claim his body was hit a total of seven times. The battle had continued to 10 p.m. which ended with heavy Union losses. Among the other fatalities was Gen. George Crockett Strong, mortally wounded; Col. Haldimand S. Putnam shot and killed instantly;  Col. John Lyman Chatfield, mortally wounded. Shaw's 54th Regiment suffered the heaviest losses. The Confederates buried Shaw in a mass grave with many of his men, an act they intended as an insult.


 * This was no structure of heavy stone and brick. men sheltered in bomb-proofs, and the earth and sand of the walls absorbed a lot of the shell an earthen redoubt.
 * also lost were Captain Simpkins ("K" Company) and Captain Russel ("H" Company).
 * Shaw had a premonition that he would not live long.


 * Captain Luis Emlio, commander of "E" Company, assumed command of the 54th, all senior officers having been killed or wounded.

In fact the Confederates had over a 1,000 men in the fort.

The fort was well armed with an assortment of heavy guns and whose overall strength was underestimated by Union command. At the battle, July 18, 1863, along with two brigades of white troops, the 54th assaulted Confederate batteries at Fort Wagner. As the unit hesitated in the face of overwhelming Confederate fire,


 * United States Volunteers
 * Sarah Greenough, curator at the National Gallery of Art, stated "the 54th won everyone's respect because they proved that African Americans could be exemplary soldiers."


 * Morris Island: https://www.charlestoncvb.com/news/morris_island__an_integral_part_of_fort_sumter_s_past~395/
 * First Battle of Charleston Harbor 7 April 1863 failed naval attack on Charleston Harbor, driven off by the guns of the forts ringing the harbor entry. It was decided that to take the town the forts would have to be overcome with land attacks.
 * Fort Wagner protected Battery Gregg out on Cummings Point on the northern tip of Morris Island. When the Union had captured Battery Gregg they renamed it Fort Putnam (not to be confused with the Fort Putnam at West Point). The earthworks featured high walls, traverses, bombproofs or bombproofs or bombproofs to protect the garrison, and gun positions. They were all designed to resist the heavy rain of shells from the land to the south and from ironclads out at sea.