The Charge of the Light Brigade
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Someone had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made,
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred.
"You recognize him?"
~(My Mother)~
"No...should I?"
~(Simply Jim)~
The last evening they were here in Atlanta, we watch a video of a movie my sister brought with them.
"That's Tommy Tuberville."
~(My Mother)~
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Thomas Hawley Tuberville (born September 18, 1954) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at the University of Cincinnati, a position he accepted on December 8, 2012. Tuberville served as the head football coach at the University of Mississippi from 1995 to 1998, at Auburn University from 1999 until 2008, and at Texas Tech University from 2010 to 2012.
Tuberville was the 2004 recipient of the Walter Camp and Bear Bryant Coach of the Year awards after Auburn's 13–0 season, in which his team won the Southeastern Conference title and the Sugar Bowl, but was left out of the BCS National Championship Game. Tuberville earned his 100th career win on October 6, 2007, in a 35–7 victory over Vanderbilt. He is the only coach in Auburn football history to beat in-state rival Alabama six consecutive times.
In 2011, Tuberville was elected second vice president of the American Football Coaches Association. According to AFCA tradition, he will move up to first vice president in 2012 and president in 2013.[2]
Tuberville was born and raised in Camden, Arkansas, one of three children of Charles and Olive Tuberville.[3] He graduated from Harmony Grove High School in Camden in 1972. He attended Southern Arkansas University, where he lettered in football as a safety for the Muleriders and also played two years on the golf team. He received a B.S. degree in physical education from SAU in 1976
After the 2008 season, with a 5–7 record including losses to Vanderbilt, West Virginia, and a final 36–0 loss to Alabama, he resigned from Auburn.[7]Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs claimed that Tuberville voluntarily resigned. Jacobs added: "To say the least, I was a little shocked. But after three times of asking him would he change his mind, he convinced me that the best thing for him and his family and for this football program was for him to possibly take a year off and take a step back."[8] With his departure, Tuberville was paid a pro-rated buyout of $5.1 million. The payments included $3 million within 30 days of his resignation date and the remainder within a year.
Following his departure from Auburn, during the 2009 football season, Tuberville worked as an analyst for Buster Sports and ESPN, discussing the SEC and the Top 25 on various television shows and podcasts.[9] He also made a cameo appearance in the Academy Award-winning feature film The Blind Side.
On January 1, 2011, Tuberville became the second head coach in Texas Tech football history to win a bowl game in his first season—an accomplishment unmatched since DeWitt Weaver's first season in 1951-52.[12]
Tuberville is married to Suzanne (née Fette) of Guilford, Indiana, approximately 30 miles west of the coach's job in Cincinnati, Ohio.[20] They are the parents of two sons, Tucker and Troy. In a January 2010 interview in which Tuberville discussed various aspects of his personal outlook and his life beyond coaching, he described how he and Suzanne, both teetotalers,[22] chanced to meet in Pat O'Brien's Hurricane Bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The year was 1989 when Tommy was coaching defense for the University of Miami Hurricanes and Suzanne — based in Boise, Idaho and employed by Newhouse Newspapers — was in New Orleans to work on a convention. They talked between tables for an hour, and he gave her his business card, finding her especially interesting because, although she was from a small town in Indiana, was a fan of Bobby Knight and knew a lot about basketball, she "had no clue" about football.[23] The Hurricanes were to play in the 1989 Sugar Bowl in the Louisiana Superdome, and Suzanne did not know what the Sugar Bowl was and found that attractive.[22]
A Lubbock man injured in a car crash when his vehicle was struck by a vehicle driven by Suzanne Tuberville has died.
Ira Purdy died Friday.
Suzanne Tuberville is the wife of Texas Tech head football coach Tommy Tuberville.
Bradley Pettit, a Lubbock attorney representing the Purdy family, said Purdy died of injuries related to the Nov. 1 accident.
“The medical examiner was called in, they’re reviewing the case and we’re waiting for their findings. We’re very confident they will find that he died as a result of the injuries from the Nov. 1 accident,” said Pettit.
“He was 87 and he had a significant head injury, a broken leg, broken ribs … he just never recovered,” said Pettit.
The Tubervilles declined an interview with a reporter for The Avalanche-Journal.
During his time at Auburn, Tuberville participated actively in the Auburn Church of Christ[24] and contributed time and resources to other organizations within the Auburn community including Storybook Farm,[25] an equestrian-based program offering free therapeutic care to children with debilitating illnesses and those suffering from bereavement. Additionally, he hosted charity golf tournaments for Camp ASCAA, the Girls and Boys Club of Montgomery, the Auburn University Marching Band, and the Alabama Sheriffs' Youth Ranches.
Tuberville has indicated his other interests as "NASCAR, golf, football, hunting and fishing, . . . [and] America's military"; he is a director for Morale Entertainment, which provides National Collegiate Athletic Association for tours among deployed U.S. service members.[26]
In 2010, Tuberville was named as a co-defendant along with John David Stroud in a lawsuit brought against TS Capital LLC.[27] The lawsuit was filed by investors and alleged that Tuberville and Stroud co-managed a hedge fund that defrauded investors of U.S. $1.7 million. Stroud was found guilty in August 2013 of securities fraud, ordered to pay $2.1 million in restitution and serve 10 years in jail. The lawsuit against Tuberville was settled on October 10, 2013 but terms were not disclosed.[28]
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"My God he's gotten old!"
~(Simply Jim)~
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"She's pretty."
~(My Sister)~
On another visit,
showed by sister what I've discovered since; what Wikipedia had to say about Tommy and even showed her more about his wife Suzanne.
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Wonder why Wikepidia didn't mention Tommy's first wife Vicki Harris also from Camden, Arkansas; my sister's roommate at Henderson State College. Vicki was maid of honor in my sister's wedding and my sister was Vicki's maid of honor in her wedding to Tommy Tuberville.
I went to that wedding with my mother.
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