"The Bottom Line" so to speak

http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/05/22/new-american-aristocracy



https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/

An explanation of ISIS

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I'll be 70 next week.  Seems like only yesterday I was 17 and going off to the University of Wisconsin with a NROTC full-ride scholarship wondering what was going on over in a place called Viet Nam.  I remember my dad, a USMCR Captain-veteran of 4 amphibious landings in the South Pacific telling me he would understand it if I choose to go to Canada!  He said he had been worried about being recalled for the fiasco in Korea(his unit was with the "Frozen at Chosin"):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=amgLyiXEahI)
Now he said the country was heading down the same road that the French had traveled in Indo-China and it would end in a fiasco.  He was right!

today's paper!

Cartoons say so much!

I'm back...

just read a great book:  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3829707-last-flag-flying" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Last Flag Flying" border="0" src="http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nocover/111x148.png" /></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3829707-last-flag-flying">Last Flag Flying</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/670986.Darryl_Ponicsan">Darryl Ponicsan</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/521901732">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
Now I've got to get the first book, The Last Detail!  Saw the movie, of course, when it came out.  I had been a "swabbie" enlisted seaman for my "two years before the mast" on a WWII liberty ship converted to a intelligence-gathering "spy" ship similar to the Pueblo.  I could relate to all three of the main characters and was familiar with times!  <br /><br />All that said, This book makes the transition to the present, well a few years ago, an understandable leap!<br /><br />Savvy and succinct, deeper than you think.  Question Authority
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check out the price for a "used copy"!

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for the record: MY birth certificate!

My cousin thought I should question whether or not to leave the photo of my original birth certificate on the blog so I just removed it!  Don't want any criminal/terrorist running around with my identity.

I doubt whether this is of any value to someone with nefarious intent!
            p. 2 of my baby book: