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January 25 - February 1, 2013
the battleship Nevada. It had been damaged in the first wave of attack at Pearl Harbor, but not sunk, and it had fired up its boilers and tried to get underway and out of the harbor to where it could maneuver. And as a result it had nearly sunk in the channel, where it would have blocked the entire harbor entrance for months.
On the other hand, a radar technician at Opana Station had telephoned his superior officer at 7:05 A.M., nearly fifty minutes before the attack on Pearl Harbor, and reported a large number of unidentified planes coming in from the north. His superior officer had told him to ignore it, it was nothing at all, and gone back to bed.
And then there was Wheeler Field, where, trying to protect the planes from sabotage, they had parked them all in the middle of the field. Where it had taken the Japanese Zeros ex...
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Poor thing, consigned to a life of frivolousness and wretched things for breakfast. Not allowed to go to school or do anything worthwhile, and eel pie besides.
“Napoleon marched his army into Belgium on the fifteenth of June in 1814. Had he pressed on to Ligny instead of stopping in Fleurus, he would have split Wellington’s and Blücher’s armies apart and won the battle of Waterloo.
canting slightly to port
Lol!
“I have seen the face of my own dear mother!”
hahahahaha!!
“Gone?” Mrs. Mering gasped, and I thought she was going to pitch over the stairs.
hahahahaha!!
Other Side.
Lol!
The vicar tried to dissuade them from donating. He felt it should remain in the family’s possession, but they were adamant.”
I bet he did. hahahahaha!!
and the newspapers would never print anything that isn’t true.”
lol!!
There was another long pause, and then Baine said, “All the diary entries and dismissals in the world cannot change the truth. Galileo recanted under threat of torture, but that did not make the sun revolve round the earth. If you dismiss me, the vase will still be vulgar, I will still be right, and your taste will still be plebeian, no matter what you write in your diary.”
A pause, either for weeping or wardrobe-planning.
HAHAHAHAHA!
