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| Little ray of sunshine  |
Les sanglots longs Des violons De l’automne Blessent mon cœur D’une langueur Monotone. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | ||
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Watched that for Memorial Day. This space intentionally left blank. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine |
It is June 5, and in 1944 on this day the second group from the Verlaine poem was broadcast to signal a resistance group to sabotage railroads. The first group was broadcast on June 1 to warn them to be ready to go when they heard the second group. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
I did not know that. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Check this out - I was going to start a thread on this but hope you don't mind if I put this in your thread given the topic. The 82nd Airborne twitter feed is going to do a real time re-enactment of the division's participation in Operation Overlord beginning at 7:00 PM Eastern. I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes. https://twitter.com/82ndABNDiv/with_replies “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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| No double standards |
That is on my bucket list. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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| So let it be written, so let it be done...  |
Bewunden meinem herz mit eintonige madlichkeit... 'veritas non verba magistri' | |||
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Hold Fast |
****************************************************************************** Never shoot a large caliber man with a small caliber bullet . . . | |||
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Long sobs Violins Autumn Wound my heart Of a languor Monotonous. _________________________ | |||
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| Hold Fast |
Wounds my heart with a monotonous languor ****************************************************************************** Never shoot a large caliber man with a small caliber bullet . . . | |||
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Here are some highlights of the drop on Sunday: https://www.dvidshub.net/video...irborne-ops-d-day-74 Here's much more footage all shot from the ground. https://www.dvidshub.net/video...d-day-74-parachutage | |||
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I didn't either. Thanks for the insight, jhe888. . | |||
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| Fire for effect |
Thanks for posting. "Ride to the sound of the big guns." | |||
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I have regrets about not spending more time in conversation with three real deal, been there, done that WWII vets: 1- My old man. He rode a WLA with a sidecar across France with 3rd Army. He never spoke of it. 2- Elie Wiesel. I served as personal security for him when he lectured in Springfield. 3- I once briefly met an elderly French lady who had an interesting tattoo. The Cross of Lorraine. She was French Resistance. I can only imagine what it must have been like for a Resistance fighter to hear the poem and know that the time had come to support the invasion. Maybe our ancestors felt a similar feeling when Paul Revere rode by. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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