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The detail is from a History Channel recap of important events on July 10 throughout history. Obviously, some are more recent than others. Some are so recent that I was an absurdly small "extra"--merely a unrecognized bystander--in their resolution. As fate and fortune would have it, I was in Chiang Rai, Thailand, the week that… Continue reading On This Day, Six Years Ago, “Mission Possible for Team Thailand”
This day in history, sixty-five years ago: Army officers MAJ Dale R. Buis and MSG Chester M. Ovnand were the first Americans killed as a result of American involvement in the Vietnam War. Not the Vietnam War that had been ongoing for decades previous, but the one that resulted from American involvement from 1954 and… Continue reading Here’s To the Heroes
Today, I claim executive privilege and repost with considerable emendations, one from the past. It's a personal anniversary, my sixth--in wedding anniversary terms that would be "iron"-- and I'm in a bit of a reflective mood: I don't think any of my sentiments have changed in the intervening years. I haven't been to any "far… Continue reading Far Away Places–2024
https://youtu.be/HlHMQEegpFs That's the verse he always began with. Not the one which includes the startling facts that "We didn't want to cover the story because we were scared that it might have proven Donald Trump and his repugnant MAGA supporters correct." No. On this website, it will always be the story that celebrates "heroes." Here's… Continue reading Happy Birthday, USA!
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference; for at a minimum, to love or hate someone is to have intense emotions toward them.--Elie Wiesel He would know. Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust victim who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz and Buchenwald before the latter camp was liberated by the the US Army in April,… Continue reading Quote of the Day: Elie Wiesel on Love, Hate, and Indifference