Veterans Day
Marines investigating claim about men in Iwo Jima photo
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/05/03/marines-investigating-claim-men-iwo-jima-photo.html
This interests me because my Uncle Walter, who was 18 at the time, was wounded at Iwo Jima.
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P.S.: The old carpenter who lived on my wife's street in Oppama (near the entrance of Tokyo Bay) was one of the few Japanese survivors of Iwo Jima. [BTW, the "w" is not meant to be pronounced--it is an antique way of writing Japanese in latin letters, and "wo" represents a long "o." In that system, a simple "o" is short. And the two words (sulphur + island) are pronounced as a single four-syllable word. It sounds to an English speaker as if the stress is on the second syllable, ee-OH-ji-mah, but that isn't really so.] There have been a lot of stories over the years about the famous photo being posed, and participants substituted.
It's possible my uncle was at Iwo Jima, but I don't know; he never said in my presence on which islands he had landed. Judging from one story he told me, I figure that Tarawa was one. "Bloody Tarawa." He was in the Sea Bees, and they often didn't get recognition in the histories because during landings they operated as Marine Corps units, unified command being a very good idea in pressing circumstances. The Sea Bees were the first ones to hit the beaches. Out of his battalion at that landing 200 men out of 500 got across the beach alive and into the shelter of the forest; the battalion that landed alongside them had similar casualties. Then they reformed, took out the pillboxes that commanded the beach, cleared the beach and prepared it for the Coast Guard to land the "tough guys." [The last somewhat sarcastic dig is mine; not my uncle's.] I may have told this story here before; if so, please pardon me.
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I don't recall you telling this before, Alan. Thanks for doing so!
Deletehttp://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/11/why_conservatives_are_more_susceptible_to_believing_in_lies.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_fb_ru
ReplyDeleteA worthwhile read, puddle. It doesn't emphasize, but is consistent with, some more recent psychological and psychiatric research. I am offended by such people being called "conservatives," when I think they should be called anarchists and radicals. I recall one person who argued that the single thread connecting "conservative" government philosophies from Roman times to the present is the belief in the value of a hierarchical society--that is, a society of the governing and the governed, or better the ruling and the ruled. Hmmm...if the problem comes from the amygdala, or more generally from the fear-sensing portion of the brain, might that not be a developmental abnormality akin to various types of sex-identification problems?
DeleteJust thinkin'.
Alan
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--Alan
I looked up those hearing aids in the article you posted, Alan. Just the plain hearing aids are over $1,600 - and the ones you can plug into your phone and other stuff are over $3,000! What mattress do they think old people will get this money from?
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