Aug 18, 2021 Week: 34 Day: 230
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Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A
hard male rain with thunder, lightning, and small hail hit about 30 minutes
ago. Now it is just a drizzle.
It
has been years since we have had a summer monsoon with as much rain as this
summer. Hoping we are moving out of our 20-year drought. If not, the local forest
fire danger will be frightening. The rain has turned everything green, but if
heat without moisture returns, everything will be tinder dry in just a few
weeks and that means huge fires.
It
is time the government and the population wake up and admits we lost our war in
Afghanistan. We got bin Laden a decade ago and it has been downhill ever since.
We were in battle in Vietnam 19 years, 5 months and 8 days. We were in battle
in Afghanistan for 19 years, 10 months and 6 days. As a baby boomer, we
were in conflict in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. I have known soldiers in
each war. Most of them, but not all, came home alive. Some returned with
visible injuries, others with invisible ones. The country called and they
served. Before we send any troops to a foreign country again, we need to have a
clear goal, complete it, and leave. We need to be spending our funding on
helping the Vets who have returned with visible and invisible injury. No Vet
should be hungry, no Vet should be in housing distress. Every Vet should have
medical and mental health services when needed at no cost to them. It is time
to reprioritize our goals so that assisting returning combat Vets is very near
the top of our military goals.
The
world is watching how we handle the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Yesterday China
was busy ‘educating’ the Taiwanese as to how we abandoned our Afghan
translators, locals who helped us, and all the Afghans as we quickly withdrew. China
warned Taiwan that they could be next.
Interesting:
Historical
Events
293
BC The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded, starting the institution
of Vinalia Rustica (grape harvest festival)
1872
– The first mail-order catalogs were published by Montgomery Ward. In 2000, the
retail outlet was closed.
1909 Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents
Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant
near the Potomac River.
1920
– The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution granted women the right to vote.
1960
“The Pill” – birth control went on sale.
1963
James Meredith becomes the 1st black graduate from University of Mississippi
2017
Civilian researchers led by Paul Allen re-discover the USS Indianapolis 18,000
feet below the Pacific surface, 72 years after it was sunk by Japanese
torpedoes
Birthdays
Today
94
– Rosalynn Carter, First Lady
88
– Roman Polanski, French-Polish director, producer
@85 – Shelley Winters [Shirley Schrift], actor (d. 2006)
85
– Robert Redford, actor
@71 – Marshall Field, founded Marshall Field’s (d. 1906; pneumonia)
60
– Bob Woodruff, American journalist, author
@57 – Patrick Swayze, American actor, and dancer (d. 2009)
52
– Christian Slater, actor
52
– Edward Norton, actor
43
– Andy Samberg, American actor, comedian
@38 – Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (d.
1972, plane crash)
@35 – Meriwether Lewis, American soldier, explorer, and politician
(d. 1809; shot, suicide<?>)
