70 years
after the attack Japan is our ally in the Pacific, a major trading partner, and
manufactures excellent electronics and very good cars. S. Korea is moving into the car market as
well.
Our veterans
of WWII are vanishing rapidly at the rate of 1000/day. Vietnam veterans have moved into the on-deck
slot and are perishing at about 300/day now.
Korean War vets are lost in the haze and smoke of a war that most
Americans may not even remember.
It is raining
on Cassi Creek. The temperature,
currently hovering around 48-49 °F will fall through the afternoon and we will
likely get snow tonight.
I am
scheduled to have cortisone injections in both shoulders this afternoon. That may afford me 7-10 days of relatively
less pain and greater ease in dressing myself.
The 1.6
inches of rain received in the last 24 hours has done nothing to alleviate the
weather related discomfort that comes with cold fronts, wind, and
precipitation. We will light the wood
stove tonight.
Tomorrow, if
it is dry, I need to work on setting up thermostatic controllers for the lamps
we use to keep the well filters from freezing.
Nothing more
than odds and ends comes to mind today. How things have changed in the last 70 years. Now our fallen heroes slip away with little notice and we watch the process from an ever more distant point of no concern on the part of too much of our population.
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