Saturday, January 27, 2018

January 27, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Auschwitz Liberation Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For January 27, 2018 Steve Wynn has just resigned as finance chair for the RNC; like spoiled brats who were not picked to join a pickup game,  a growing number of Democrats are announcing their plans to boycott Trump’s first SOTU speech while other misguided idiots at the Lincoln Memorial are protesting the tax cuts while American Family Insurance became the latest company to join the tax cut bonus parade announcing that its 11,000 employees would receive a $1000 bonus; CNN has just earned a new acronym to supplement its Cack “News” Network—Cuckold “News” Network for its idiocy in promoting cuckolding (major problem in the black community is the absence of fathers either because they are in jail, if in Chicago dead, or MIA and CNN is promoting the humiliation of men by encouraging wives to have sex in front of them—no wonder one of its “stars” is rightfully named Lemon); Clinton is back in the news again looking very old and irrelevant and hit by allegations she ignored during her pathetic 2008 campaign allegations of sexual harassment by a senior adviser to her against one of her young campaign workers (the H in HRC stands, as it always has, for hypocrite); on the school shooting front the gruesome totals at Marshal County High School are two dead and 14 shot and wounded (Preston Cope the father of Brian Cope who died while en route to the hospital rushed to the school and recognized his socks on a stretcher and was able to tell him he loved him one last time (Red and Blue reaction unlike other school shootings was to introduce legislation in Kentucky to have armed guards at all schools to protect students); on the sports front advertisers are crossing their fingers that Trump does not tweet his opposition to any player not standing for the national anthem during the Super Bowl and Bob Costa is in hot water with NBC for the observation that football destroys brains (unfortunately repeated concussions arising out of collisions of big athletes running at full speed do exactly just that); in Chicago through January 26, 2018 178 people have been shot of whom 30 have died.
        As always, I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to Men at Work,  factoids of interest for this day in history, learning another meaning for lighter and a relevant quote by Anna Reid on the 872 day siege of Leningrad during World War II,  secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, 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. Auschwitz Libration Day—commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army on this day in 1945; but sadly such liberation did not come soon enough for the 1,082,000 (1/6th
of the  total Holocaust victims) Jews, Poles, Romanis, Soviet POWs and other nationalities that were gassed before the Red Army arrived.
2. Vietnam Peace Day—commemorating the cease fire resulting from the Paris Peace Accords that began at midnight on this day in 1973 which enabled the U.S. to withdraw its troops from South Vietnam and cease hostilities and end the nightmare that was ripping the country apart.
3. 1983 Number One Song— the number one song in 1983 on a run of 4 weeks in that position was “Down Under” by Men at Work. Here is a recording of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfR9iY5y94s
4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “lighter” which has nothing to do a device to light a cigarette but rather is an open boat used to load or unload a ship which typically is moored offshore or has cargo that needs to be further transported over shallower water.
5. In The Genes--celebrating the birth on this day in 1964 of Bridgett Fonda, granddaughter of Henry Fonda, daughter of Peter Fonda and niece of Jane Fonda who first appeared on the screen in Easy Rider playing a five year old child in a commune and went on to become an accomplished actress who retired from the business after suffering a broken vertebra following a severe automobile accident.
          On this day in:                                                               
a. 1944 the Soviet Red Army after 872 days lifted the siege of Leningrad, the longest siege in history and the most costly in terms of military and civilian casualties (over a million Soviet civilians died from bombs,  shells and starvation.
b. 1967 astronauts Gus Grissom (infamous for having his Mercury 7 Capsule hatch open prematurely after splashdown in the ocean to be sunk), Ed White, and Roger Chafee are burnt to death during a test of their Apollo 1 Spacecraft while on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center.
c. 1980 with Canadian assistance a fake film crew was formed in Tehran consisting of 6 American diplomats that had escaped capture when the American Embassy was seized, 1 Irishman and 1 Latin American were spirited out of Iran on a Swiss Air flight; the effort was memorialized by 2012 film Argo.
d. 2000 Bill Belichick was hired as the head coach of the New England Patriots and will be trying to add to his record of 5 Super Bowls wins as a head coach next Sunday.
e. 2002 the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress announced the first 50 selections for the National Recording Registry.
Reflections on the effect of the siege of Leningrad through the eyes of a 12 yeaar old child. “One of the most oft-quoted records of the siege, scribbled in pencil over the pages of a pocket address book, is that kept by twelve-year-old Tanya Savicheva:
‘28 December 1941 at 12.30 a.m. – Zhenya died. 25 January 1942 at 3 p.m. – Granny died. 17 March at 5 a.m. – Lyoka died. 13 April at 2 a.m. – Uncle Vasya died. 10 May at 4 p.m. – Uncle Lyosha died. 13 May at 7.30 a.m. – Mama died. The Savichevs are dead. Everyone is dead. Only Tanya is left.’” Anna Reid Leningrad, The Epic Siege of World War II 1941-1944
Unfortunately, although she was one of 140 children rescued from Lenigrad, her story does not end happily as she ended up dying from intestinal tuberculosis in a hospital on July 1, 1944. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day in History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance or go to  Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.
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