Posted on 04/10/2015 4:15:39 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
I agree. I mentioned to my teenagers earlier today that I was married at 22. My 17-year-old said, "You were? Weird!"
With reference to our recent discussion on the western boundary of the Ruhr pocket: I’ll be watching to see how and when the 101st Airborne gets from there to Bertchesgaden prior to VE Day, as depicted by Ambrose.
Well said. Mark Twain reported (paraphrasing), "It's amazing how much my father learned between when I left home at 21 and when I returned at 25." See, of course, Jesus' Prodigal Son.
I tricked Mrs. Homer into marrying me when she was but 21. (I was an old-timer of 29 at the time.) That was 34 years ago.
I realized how amazing my parents were when I had my own children.
My paternal grandfather, my father, my brother, and I all married women about a year older than we were. Strange but true.
That said, she remarried into a prominent California family and Shirley Temple Black lived a long and happy life, occasionally dabbling in politics and entertainment.
I know that feeling. When I deployed 10 years ago, we never really had a good sense of dates. We knew what day of the week it was based on the Battle Rhythm, what meeting we had to go to and what operations we being run, but other than that, I had to look at a calendar to get a perspective of what day of the month it was.
Interesting history on wrist watches:
The concept of the wristwatch goes back to the production of the very earliest watches in the 16th century. Elizabeth I of England received a wristwatch from Robert Dudley in 1571, described as an arm watch. From the beginning, wrist watches were almost exclusively worn by women, while men used pocket-watches up until the early 20th century.[11]
Wristwatches were first worn by military men towards the end of the 19th century, when the importance of synchronizing manoeuvres during war, without potentially revealing the plan to the enemy through signalling, was increasingly recognized.
The impact of the First World War dramatically shifted public perceptions on the propriety of the man's wristwatch, and opened up a mass market in the postwar era. The creeping barrage artillery tactic, developed during the war, required precise synchronization between the artillery gunners and the infantry advancing behind the barrage. Service watches produced during the War were specially designed for the rigours of trench warfare, with luminous dials and unbreakable glass. The British War Department began issuing wristwatches to combatants from 1917.[14] By the end of the war, almost all enlisted men wore a wristwatch, and after they were demobilized, the fashion soon caught on: the British Horological Journal wrote in 1917 that "the wristlet watch was little used by the sterner sex before the war, but now is seen on the wrist of nearly every man in uniform and of many men in civilian attire." By 1930, the ratio of wrist- to pocketwatches was 50 to 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch
Gen. Bradley’s map is a little out of date. Snook’s outfit is already in Schweinfurt.
I have no doubt that some day your own children will come to the same realization if they have not already done so.
She had several successful films as a young adult, notably, for John Wayne fans, “Fort Apache.” I think she didn’t have an adult movie career because she didn’t want to.
She did do some TV work before she went into politics.
“Fort Apache” is one of my favorite westerns. Her character of Philadelphia helps to humanize Col. Thursday (Henry Fonda).
I think this is a link to the action:http://members.optusnet.com.au/path131/mtb494.html
It's a shame we didn't have craft similar to the E-Boats in the Pacific theater.
I agree. It’s a very well done film with a good balance of domestic drama, humor, and war violence. John Agar was good in it, and also in “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.”
I think that putting those maps together would be a singularly unpleasant task. You would know more than most that the Soviets were about to unleash Hell, and there was nothing you could do to stop it. Worse, the Russians were going to give Germany the same treatment that Germany visited on them less than four years before.
I really hope you are being sarcastic...
Thanks. The Army’s saying was if we wanted to to have a wrist watch [or wife!] we would have issued you one.
We used to say, if the Army wanted you to have a life, they would have issued you one, but it would most likely be denied at a higher level.
The #1 song in the US on April 10, 1945
My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time - Les Brown - Doris Day vocals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXW8ogLgiGw
April 10, 1945
In what will become known as the “day of the great jet massacre,” Allied aircraft shoot down half of the German Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter planes. The loss proves fatal to the Luftwaffe and the defense of Berlin is abandoned.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/bombing/2/
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