A smart husband, like a smart lawyer, doesn’t ask a question for which he doesn’t know the answer, not in the above context anyway. In reality, husbands ask many such questions, such as, Do you know where my shoes are? Well, you know what’s coming for most of us: winter! And it’s just Veteran’s Day.
No Second Guessing
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63 responses to “No Second Guessing”
Air Force Communications Command 1972-1993. kkk/za
To continue the military motif for today…No joy on Google; tally-ho on Safari and IE.
Hmmm–couldn’t get it to come up on IE or Mozilla.
Word of the day: abjad
No fair looking it up!
Early on teachers learn the same thing about questions. Not questions such as “What do you think?” or “When did the Pilgrims land?” but ones like “Hey! What are you doing?”
Some abjad too much on the internet
Did I get close?
Abjad – The pain one gets from doing too many sit-ups.
Alternate Word of the Day – omphaloskepsis
GR6, watching uncensored reruns of I Dream of Jeannie?
Gilligan’s Island…
To the veterans in The Village, saying thank you isn’t enough, but it is heart-felt. Thank you!
Does anybody know that Bea Arthur of “Maude” and “Golden Girls” fame was a typist and a truck driver in the Marines? I didn’t until today.
Let us not forget those who served in the shadows and gave their full measure anonymously.
With that voice of hers, Bea Arthur could have been a USMC Drill Instructor.
Julia Child served in the OSS during WWII because she was too tall to join the WACs or the WAVES. While serving in what is now Southeast Asia, she met Paul Child and eventually married him.
Thanks Jean and GR6 for you comments. Now I have this mental picture of Bea Arthur and Lee Emery together at the USMC Birthday Ball.
Thank you to all the Veterans.
Had the day off, went up to Fort Wayne to see aunt and grandma. This morning, I went to the cemetery to visit mom for the first time and pay respects to her dad, a Master Sargent in the Army. Rougher than I expected. Took some pictures for grandma (mother and wife of same). It was too cold, wet and the ground too soft for her in a wheelchair. (Not forgetting my other grandfather’s military service, but he is buried the next state over.) Got back to the nursing home in time for the Veterans’ service. Two Air Reservists did the flag folding ceremony, then came back to chat and answer questions, and ask the Veterans there about their service. Lots of long enlistments. One gentleman started out Army, switched to Air Force, then spent 30+ years in the Air Force, retiring a “Full-Bird Colonel,” as the senior Reservist called him upon realizing he had met the gentleman years ago; the Reservist still has a card with the full list of planes the Veteran had flown. Other notables were first wave in Hiroshima after the bombs fell, Normandy, several Vietnam ground troops, a Korean War Veteran, and sadly, a few souls whose service achievements had faded from their memory. To their word, the gentlemen stayed and chatted, shared memories, admired photos and medals, and soothed the ones upset about their failing memories.
MfI, your post hit hard. …several Vietnam ground troops…, are those of us from the Vietnam era really getting that old? Been 43 years since my last tour ended, some nights it feels more like last weekend.
sandcastler™ – I do not envy those memories that keep you awake at night. One of my former employees is a Vietnam Veteran. He is the last of his unit, (heavy in night patrols and tunnel clearing) and is really starting to struggle now with the physical effects of some of the chemicals used. He has THE best poker face I’ve ever encountered – I never know when he is pulling my chain; I do not doubt for a moment it is a skill honed and perfected during his service. I’ve listened carefully to what little he has told me – I fill in the silences privately, certain I am barely scratching the surface. Each war creates its own version of hell, heaven spare those who dare tread its valleys.
Mozilla strikes again.
Good thing, I guess, that they have blocked me from all their fora.
Really in a bind–I’ve looked all the other browsers and (until now) Firefox is still the best match to my needs since Mosaic.
Read 3/4 through 3/9. Similar to today’s missing retro.
http://tonyc.com/ajarchive/1996/
Hmmm….rolled back to 31.2.0 ESR and still no strip.
(I was reading the comics section which was open before I closed them to figure out why the Amazon “cart” had gone crazy.)
I will try save mode, then clean out the cookie jar, then I don’t know what I’ll do.
Larry, the strip is in tif format. Never having used Mozilla, I don’t know what you would use to open that. I’m on Chrome and had to download the image to open it outside my browser.
sand, you might want to look at this. A way for everyone, grunts to generals, to tell their stories…if they so desire.
http://www.loc.gov/vets/
Well, we have conclusive evidence that I don’t know nearly as much as I used to appear-to.
I did find some really scary stuff with 33 (including, sh*t you not, “duckduckgo” that seriously upset the anti malware scanner “Spyhunter”).
I’m going to stay on 31.2ESR
Now off to see if Amazon’s “cart” has gotten a grip. (And to look into the “Tiff” thing.)
Well there was an add-on that showed promise–no joy.