They made a long ditch inside the Civil War prison, and if you stepped past it, the guards would shoot you. You see, outside the line was shade and water, close enough for the prisoners to see. And since they were kept in the blazing sun, the temptation to cross the line was always there. But if even just one finger crossed, soldiers shot them dead. Which is why they called it the deadline. Years later, this became a term for due dates. But when your brain hears it, you still react like it’s life or death.

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  1. This was Andersonville, a Confederate Civil War POW prison. The prisoners, once liberated, resembled Holocaust survivors. They were starved to the point that there brains were destroyed from lack of calories.

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