Ridley's Believe It Or Not—November 21, 2014:
Posted Friday morning a Thanksgiving poem for your enjoyment. http://alaskanpoet.blogspot.com/2014/11/thanksgiving-thoughts-end-black-friday.html Trust your Friday is going well as you near
the weekend and Thanksgiving; and as always I
hope you enjoy the holidays and observances, factoids and quotes from
General Westmoreland, with a smile on your sunscreened face, looking forward to
enjoying a few slices of gingerbread, blessed with a positive attitude even
though you know you will have to wade through tons of spam in your inbox, and
secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for a memorable event
or the coming Christmas, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a
unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the
recipient. You need only contact me for
details.
1. International
Television Day—established by the UN
in 1996 to either promote and encourage the expansion of TV or to bemoan its less
than stellar programming depending on your point of view.
2. No Music Day (Unofficial)—proposed by
Bill Drumond to protest the cheapening and degrading of music and celebrated on
the eve of the Feast of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music—I might agree especially
in the case of rap, but whatever notes float one’s boat is up to the person,
even if it is no Johnny Horton’s classic North
to Alaska.
3. Sock It
To Me Day—celebrating not the desire of masochists to be beaten but the
birthday of Goldie Hawn on this day in 1945 who always uttered that line
wearing a flowered bikini on the Rowan and Martin Show in the late 60’s who went
own to a successful film career and ironically established the Hawn Foundation
to teach children Buddhists’ techniques to lessen aggression.
4. Baby Love—commemorating
the number one song on this day in 1964 Baby
Love by Diana Ross and the Supremes, one of Motown’s better groups.
5. National Run Fast Day—celebrating not all those
sprinters but Gingerbread and the Gingerbread Man whom no one could catch.
On this day
in
a. 1967 less than two months before the
Tet Offensive, General Westmoreland proudly proclaimed to the press that “I am
absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 I am absolutely certain the enemy was
winning; today he is certainly losing.” Talk
about a press conference you would have liked to have had a mulligan on.
b. 1969 the first permanent
ARPANET link between UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute was established
and the world as we know it has never been the same.
c. 1984 National Security
Member Colonel Oliver North and his secretary started illegally shredding documents
linking them to the sale of arms to Iran and channeling the funds to the Contra
rebels in Nicaragua—has a quasi Fast and Furious ring to it.
d. 2002 NATO invited 7
Eastern European countries on Russia’s doorstep to become members of NATO three
of which were the Baltic Republics that accepted and become members in 2004 and
are believed to be Putin’s next target which means we are living in an increasingly
dangerous world.
Reflections
on television and the Vietnam War: “Television is an instrument that can paralyze
this country…it was the first war we’ve ever fought on the television screen
and the first war our country ever fought in which the media had full reign…without
censorship things get terribly confused in the public mind.” General William
Westmoreland, commander of U.S. troops in Vietnam. Unfortunately, from the
attacks that may not have occurred in the Gulf of Tonkin to the revelations in
the Pentagon Papers we were deceived and dragged into a conflict that became
very difficult to honorably disengage. The one group of people who were not confused were
the over 58,282 names etched in the granite of the Vietnam War Memorial—God bless
them all, each and every one.
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