Showing posts with label Memorial Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memorial Day. Show all posts
Monday, May 25, 2026
Sunday, May 24, 2026
Monday, May 26, 2025
Friday, May 23, 2025
Memorial Day Weekend
Though fallen members of our military (both of natural causes and in service) are the most important to remember - please don't forget those loved ones you've lost this Memorial Day weekend as well.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Morgan Housel on Lazy Work, Good Work
- Reminder
Monday, May 27, 2024
Memorial Day
Though fallen members of our military (both of natural causes and in service) are the most important to remember - please don't forget those loved ones you've lost this Memorial Day as well.
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Possible Trump VP choices. I'd add Ron DeSantis to the list but really don't care. Just looking forward to any of them debating Kamala Harris. (HT Execupundit)
- Reminder
- Sasha Chapman: 50 things I know. Good life advice.
- The Gospel according to Peter Thiel. Couple of years old but still worth a read from time to time.
Monday, May 30, 2022
Monday, May 31, 2021
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Daily Coach - Honor By Doing
- The Gospel according to Peter Thiel. A year old but worth another read.
- How to Snag a Campsite this Summer
- Wally Bock's The Statue in the Stone. Also a couple years old but worth a re-read.
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Flotsam and Jetsam
Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.
Monday was the first Memorial Day without baseball since 1880. World War I, the Spanish Flu, and World War II couldn't stop the tradition but the Wuhan Virus managed the feat... "We are often more frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality." - Seneca. Always makes me think of the Dune quote, "Fear is the mind-killer." Seems like a couple of apt quotes these days... Hooray! The NHL has announced its return! There will be a 24-team playoff this summer... After the Wuhan Virus say goodbye to blowing on the dice or having someone blow on your dice in Vegas or at any casino while playing craps. In fact also so goodbye to crowding around the table of a hot shooter. Craps will be a completely different game from now on (though I hope someday it will return to how God intended)... Salt (NaCl) is the only family of rocks eaten by humans... Wuhan Virus confession - I was really taking my gym for granted. I miss my gym...
Monday was the first Memorial Day without baseball since 1880. World War I, the Spanish Flu, and World War II couldn't stop the tradition but the Wuhan Virus managed the feat... "We are often more frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality." - Seneca. Always makes me think of the Dune quote, "Fear is the mind-killer." Seems like a couple of apt quotes these days... Hooray! The NHL has announced its return! There will be a 24-team playoff this summer... After the Wuhan Virus say goodbye to blowing on the dice or having someone blow on your dice in Vegas or at any casino while playing craps. In fact also so goodbye to crowding around the table of a hot shooter. Craps will be a completely different game from now on (though I hope someday it will return to how God intended)... Salt (NaCl) is the only family of rocks eaten by humans... Wuhan Virus confession - I was really taking my gym for granted. I miss my gym...
Monday, May 25, 2020
HMS Jersey
On this Memorial Day it is good to remember not just those who have given their last full measure in the past few generations but also the earliest Americans who gave their all. The story of the HMS Jersey is a good place to start:
One of the most gruesome chapters in the story of America’s struggle for independence from Britain occurred in the waters near New York Harbor, near the current location of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. From 1776 to 1783, the British forces occupying New York City used abandoned or decommissioned warships anchored just offshore to hold those soldiers, sailors and private citizens they had captured in battle or arrested on land or at sea (many for refusing to swear an oath of allegiance to the British Crown). Some 11,000 prisoners died aboard the prison ships over the course of the war, many from disease or malnutrition. Many of these were inmates of the notorious HMS Jersey, which earned the nickname “Hell” for its inhumane conditions and the obscenely high death rate of its prisoners.Abraham Clark of New Jersey was a signatory of Declaration of Independence. Both of Clark's sons were captured and held prisoner on the HMS Jersey. His eldest son died there of STARVATION! More that twice as many Americans died aboard those British prison ships that actually died in battle during the Revolutionary war.
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