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I've always thought it was Patton's armor coming to the rescue and the clearing of the skies which provided air cover that enabled the Army to win that battle. Yesterday, I came across this on YouTube. Never to old to learn something new, I found this to be fascinating. YouTube disallowed the...

Beginning with "The Twentieth Century With Walter Cronkite" I became quite a history buff of WWII. I've always thought it was Patton's armor and the skies clearing permitting air cover that won that battle. Never being too old to learn something new, I just learned what really happened: It...

I read a neat article about him wanting to be cast in Peaky Blinders. He was told to forget it, he was too nice or a guy. "Am an Actor!" So, they gave in and let him audition and he nailed it. After all, he IS an actor.

The final show was a huge disappointment. Newhart set the bar for great finales. Seinfeld's was a total flop.

This was the number one song on the date of my birth! Being the horrible procrastinator I have always been, I doubt if anyone here has a more appropriate birth song!

I had never seen this before today. With nuclear holocaust being brought back into the realm of it being a possibility I thought I'd share it with you. I thought it to be a hoot: Iconic ‘60s Singer and Satirist Dies at 97 And here is another comedic view on the matter. WARNING!!! THE...

I loved it on Friday mornings. Someone would yell out one word or phrase. Everyone who had watched Seinfeld would bust out laughing. SPONGE WORTHY! SHRINKAGE! POOFY SHIRT! NO SOUP FOR YOU! the classic: MASTER OF YOUR DOMAIN! And my personal favorite: THEY'RE REAL AND THEY ARE SPECTACULAR!

The only American women who are ever mentioned in the Vietnam fiasco are the nurses and the "donut dollies". One of the best kept secrets of that shit show was the thousands of American women who worked there. My wife was one of them. She was an Admin assistant to the CG of the Engineers...

Whenever this is discussed I think about an old, very sweet little movie with Art Carney: "Harry and Tonto".

We were the "hippie generation". Some of us lived in communes (not me), grew out of it and lived normal lives. Maybe it's time to go back to the hippie days and live in senior communes of single bedroom apartments where we have common areas and we all help each other. I don't know how to...

There are 58,320 names on the Wall. No mention of the other hundreds of thousands of lives that war took or destroyed (millions if you count the Vietnamese. May there be a special corner of Hell for LBJ and McNamara who cooked the hole mess up. And may they be joined in that corner by Nixon...

One day, out of the blue, my father told me "you know all about booze and alcoholism but you've never seen anybody who's really sick until you've seen a sick gambler. That put the fear in me. I've never gambled. I worked with three degenerate gamblers. Two of them lost everything. I'm watch...

I have for you a beautiful amazing dog story. My wife was in a hospital bed in our living room at 2AM. I was next to her on the couch beside her. My daughter and her yellow lab were in my bed. When my wife of 52 years took her last breath, Ellie, the yellow lab jumped down and came plodding...

When I was a kid my mother used to tell us "if you don't cry at sad movies, you're a potential criminal". If you don't cry at a 1990 made TV movie with Patty Duke "Remember, I Will Always Love You" seek help.

One of the handiest things I ever learned how to do was to take a fall. I was a letter carrier and took a number of falls over the years. I slipped on the ice on time, did a tuck and roll and got back to my feet. A passing cop stopped and yelled "you've had training. That was textbook". I...