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Eighty Years Ago — August 1945
Atomic clouds above Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right) August 1945On August 6th, 1945, eighty years ago this week, a Boeing B29 Silverplate Super Fortress named Enola Gay, callsign Dimples 82, flown by Colonel Paul Tibbets, dropped a uranium-based atomic bomb...
Reflections on July 4th
This year July 4th occurs during troubled and unsettled times. Temperatures are running high, metaphorically and meteorologically. I am writing this a few days before the 4th, so perhaps there will be news that changes what I write today. With that caveat, here goes:...
Remy Martin
June 6th, 2011 – June 4th, 2025 Photograph credit Vincent ThompsonRemy Martin left us two days before his 14th birthday. He was born on D Day in 2011 and died last week. Remy was a Bouvier de Flandres, descended from the magnificent breed of strong farm dogs first...
D Day
H-Hour: 0725, Gold Beach (Sector King Green) La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur, Normandy Commandos from the 6th Battalion, Green Howards (Princess of Wales Own Yorkshire Regiment,) come ashoreToday is June 6th, the day on which, in 1944, the American, British, and Canadian...
Blitzkrieg
The long nightmare begins: Panzers advance, and civilians flee. I wonder who survived: the tankers or the little girls? Or both? Or none?We have just celebrated May 8th, VE Day, the day that Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies in 1945, 80 years ago this month. But...
VE Day
Churchill gives his famous V sign on VE DayMay 8th marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, known as ‘Victory in Europe Day’ and usually as VE Day. (The war continued in the Pacific until August 15th, when Japan surrendered following the...
