They are modern day veterans
Thank you for going and fighting the wars, and being brave when everyone else wanted to stay home.
Thank you for putting out the fires and patching up folks
Thank you for flying the helicopters
Thank you for being the smartest person I know and building the rockets and making the things that made everything else possible,
and just being all around awesome guys.

I know I never say it, but you are all my heroes.

Col. Foey "Tex" Shiflet. Bronze Star and distinguished member of the regiment.
He served in WWII. Before that he was a texas railwayman.
He wore that belt because of injuries sustained from a grenade.
He killed to save people
He took amazing photos during the war.
Italy was his territory and he walked the whole boot. Took part in the Liberation of Rome and met the pope.
One of his jobs was to find those persons who had gone missing and document the how and bring them back.

He was quite the character when I got to meet him and get to know him. He was amazingly devoted to his family and his grand and great grand children.
He passed away 2 years ago and is very much missed. Thank you for everything you did for all of us Grandpa Shiflet.

I've been a bad herald, I admit this upfront, and have been slacking off in my duties.
Fixing that today for the most part. Tho you would be surprised how complex a simple update can get when you involve out of kingdom offices or awards. Lots of extra data that has to be entered into the system before the requested update can be made.
This means I get distracted browsing other kingdom websites and learning histories that don't neccessarily apply to ours but are satisfying in an Anthropological sense.

Fun Fun

I want on this date the same thing I've wanted since the day it happened.

A sheet of black glass in the desert to last for 3000 years.

This will never change.

God rest all their souls.

They played D&D too...

Roman Glass Gaming Die


Price Realized
* $17,925
* Christie's Buying Guide

A ROMAN GLASS GAMING DIE
Circa 2nd Century A.D.
Deep blue-green in color, the large twenty-sided die incised with a distinct symbol on each of its faces
2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm.) wide
Pre-Lot Text

THE PROPERTY OF A
MARYLAND FINE ARTS PROFESSOR
Provenance

Acquired by the current owner's father in Egypt in the 1920s.
Lot Notes

Several polyhedra in various materials with similar symbols are known from the Roman period. Modern scholarship has not yet established the game for which these dice were used.

Deep down, I still want to see a sheet of glass in the desert

9/11/01
That morning, that day... and all the days after.

Glass. Just glass.

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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.


~~~Dylan Thomas Page

Photo #: NH 72273-KN (Color)

"Remember Dec. 7th!"

Poster designed by Allen Sandburg, issued by the Office of War Information, Washington, D.C., in 1942, in remembrance of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
The poster also features a quotation from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "... we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ...".

Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Center. Donation of Dr. Robert L. Scheina, 1970.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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How many times must we learn and relearn this lesson?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor Speech, December 8, 1941
( full speech )
Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us.

No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.

I believe I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again.

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger.

With confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounding determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so help us God.

I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, Dec. 7, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire."

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I got to visit Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona memorial, even at a distance, is heart rending. Oil still bubbles to the surface periodically. It is a grave, and deserves to be viewed and treated with reverence.

There are things in our history that we are not meant to forget. I think we have let these memorial days fall too far into obscurity, and that has left us as a country weak. We too easily forget that we can be attacked and hurt very very badly. Too many folks want to make them like us. "Give the crazies what they want and they will leave us alone." NO. That is not how you deal with them. You show them and make them understand that you are stronger than their threats, and make them bleed for the blood they draw on our soil. They don't understand turn the other cheek. They want you to turn, so they can cut you even more. Fanatics don't reason. I am not posting this to get folks angry at Japan. I am posting this because we have too soon forgotten the anger of the offence and blood drawn on September 11, 2001. the correct response is this...

"defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again.

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger." --FDR