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He's Back!

posted over 4 years ago, updated 20 minutes later | 0 comments
Yes, he is back, sort'a of that is.

Today's Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel that announces his return or at least his taste;

Trust attorney Michael Smith of Wauwatosa had a lunch date Monday.

…That morning, he had turned on the radio and heard t...

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The Vote...A Citizen's Response...

posted over 4 years ago, updated 6 months later | 0 comments
Lately there has been some discussion in the groups on the ballot and the issue of voting. Mostly on the issue of non-voting or the impediments to voting in our democracy.

This was my response:

There are a lot of problems with voting, the vo...

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The Sixties Today II…

posted over 4 years ago, updated 3 minutes later | 5 comments
I posted a topic on what the sixties were and have become. In that topic I wanted to look at the issue of the what and the type of change the sixties brought to mostly the people that lived it. But there has also been the issue of what did those t...

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¿Por qué no te callas?

posted over 4 years ago, updated 5 minutes later | 0 comments
This is one of today's most popular down loaded cell phone ring tones. And one could guess it is the most popular with the Spanish speaking.

Translated it means, "Why don't you shut up!"

And somehow it captures a lot of people's sentiment in th...

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Thanksgiving Day

posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
Thanksgiving Day

Its going to be Thanksgiving Day again soon. And Thanksgiving Day is an important civic holiday.

It is a patriotic holiday, sorta of. Abraham Lincoln made it a holiday in 1863 in the darkest days of the Civil War;

"… In the...

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The Sixties Today...?

posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
We have been having an interesting discussion in one of the recent posts on memories of what things were like with people not that long ago.

Not necessarily to summarize, but I felt we were beginning to focus on a critical time when things did se...

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Up on the Grassy Knoll...again...

posted over 4 years ago, updated 1 day later | 0 comments
One year ago I posted this as an item in an EONS group.

Again not to dwell on this but since this is a board for memories; the assassination and certainly the first Kennedy one, that of JFK, was something that took this country and its people ...

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"Tailgunner" Joe

posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
This was posted in one of the groups I participate in today.

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) …

(He)was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became t...

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Viet Nam Veterans Memorial: November 13th, 2007

posted over 4 years ago, updated 1 day later | 0 comments
The Viet Nam Veterans Memorial was dedicated on November 13, 1982, twenty-five years ago.

After some controversy and funding problems the unique monument to the Viet Nam War dead and missing was created on the Washington D.C. Mall just east and n...

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It's Armistice Day, 11-11-11, once again

posted over 4 years ago, updated 1 minute later | 0 comments
It's Armistice Day, 11-11-11, once again…

I remember Armistice Day, the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

In grade school we would stand, put our right hands over our heart, give the pledge of allegiance, face the east and...

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