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Bernard Family Reunion at Long Beach, CA late June, 1941. Frank is in the center, Dick, 1 1/2, is next to him.
December 7, 1941, my Uncle Frank Bernard was minding his own business on the USS Arizona, berthed at Pearl Harbor, HI. Continue Reading
I don’t know why 1969′s Woodstock fascinates me but it does. Here’s some YouTube clips from “back in the day.”
A great friend clued me in on a project a friend of hers was doing: to deliver 1000 greeting cards to military service persons, their families or veterans. It has a deadline of December 10, 2010, and the details are here.
Back on September 5, 2010, I posted “A Close Encounter With a Mosque,” remembering a friendship in the 8th grade in Ross, North Dakota in 1953-54.
“Alone in the vast universe
I froze hell over
And walked on its ashes
To create my own history.”
(The Haitian struggle – the greatest David vs. Goliath battle being played out on this planet.)
Ezilidanto November 8, 2010
Monday’s New York Times headline hit me when it showed up on my computer screen “Now in Power, G.O.P. vows cuts in State Budgets.”
Who can do anything but love trimming the fat of bloated, hated, “Government”?
A few days ago we finished the biennial reenactment of the Civil War – the 2010 elections. While this is a supposedly bloodless sport, the biennial result is “a house divided” where one side “wins” and the other “loses.” The aim, especially strong today, is to kill the opposing point of view, relevant though it may be.
I write on Nov. 3, having only the sketchiest of information about yesterday’s total election results. But I don’t write from inside a soundproof booth either.
