Lest We Forget
This is why we celebrate today. Happy Memorial Day.
To my husband’s grandfather, who went missing and presumed dead during a reconnaissance mission during WWII; to his father, who served two tours of duty in Vietnam and retired after 20 years in the Air Force; to his uncle, who was a jump trainer with the 82nd Airborne and was politely asked to retire after [...]
I subscribe to a lot more blogs than are on my blogroll. In fact, I subscribe to several blogs from Iraq. One of them, Riverbend, hasn’t updated since late last October. It’s not unusual, considering the circumstances, to have big, big gaps between blog postings. But it does make you wonder whenever it happens. Today [...]
Aw, hell, here we go: A cargo ship hired by the U.S. military fired warning shots at boats suspected to be Iranian, the U.S. Navy said on Friday, underscoring tension in the Gulf as the Pentagon sharpened its warnings to Tehran. Suspected to be Iranian? Okay…let’s see what happened. According to American defense officials, the [...]
Nope, not really. Yesterday was 70 and sunny, and today’s going to be 80, and there are many, many other things demanding my attention. Like the piano, for instance. But I saw a new blog the other day. Seeing as how it combines two of my obsessions – politics and knitting – I thought I’d [...]