I woke up semi-early, made a delightful breakfast (ham, Anaheim pepper, cherry tomato and pepper jack cheese omelet) and now... Gee, now it's time to get in the shower.
Recent reading: My Name Is Frank, from a series of BBC talks during the war (WW II, that is. My parents were Depression babies; WW II was always "the war.") by a merchant marine seaman. Fascinating look back through the eyes of someone who was in the thick of it when the material was recorded.
In the middle of Operation Mincemeat, the more-recent coverage of the The Man Who Never Was, with the then-classified bits filled in -- or corrected.
I finished Terry Pratchett's final Discworld book a little while ago. Read it, it's good. You will probably cry.
I feel behind on the Discworld. I need to get caught up (or, sadly, finished).
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I DID NOT MEET FRANK BUT I HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE AND HONOR TO MEET WORK WITH AND TALK WITH MANY OF HIS GENERATION WHO SERVED IN ALLIED MERCHANT SHIPS
ReplyDeleteTHEY WERE CALLED "THE GREATEST GENERATION" BUT THE STORY OF MERCHANT MARINERS IN THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC AND THE WAR AT SEA HAS OFTEN BEEN IGNORED DESPITE THEIR VALOR SERVICE AND SACRIFICE
THEY ARE A GROUP OF VETERANS THAT SADLY WERE NOT AFFORDED WAR VETERANS STATUS BY THEIR NATIONS THE POLITICIANS THE PUBLIC AT LARGE AND BY THE VETERAN COMMUNITY WHO SHOULD HAVE EMBRACED THEM AS COMRADES IN ARMS BUT DID NOT
THE REASONS FOR THIS WAS A HIGHLY EFFECTIVE ENEMY PROPAGANDA PROGRAM THAT APPEALED TO THE PREJUDICE IGNORANCE AND POLITICAL EXPEDIENCE OF MANY WHO SHOULD KNOW AND ACT BETTER BUT DID NOT AND A VAST NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT SIMPLY DID NOT CARE
THEY ARE MOSTLY GONE NOW THEY DID NOT FALL IN TO THE CRACKS OF HISTORY THEY WERE BULLDOZED AND FEW REALLY CARE
THANK YOU FOR REMEMBERING
I WILL HAVE TO ADD HIS BOOKS TO MY READING LIST
I've got it on my list. Just haven't gotten to it yet.
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