Comments on: Opinions in the Shorts: Vol. 143 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/ Thoughts from the Inner Mind Tue, 21 May 2013 14:56:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: aFrankAngle http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-15828 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:43:07 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-15828 Otto,
My pleasure!

]]> By: munchow http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-15823 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:11:29 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-15823 A belated thank you for your pingback.

]]> By: aFrankAngle http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-14082 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:20:01 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-14082 Guapo,
The political craziness is even causing me to continually shake my head. Now the Bufferin headline is a scoop! Thanks for commenting.

]]> By: El Guapo http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-14076 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:36:22 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-14076 I’ll leave the first part alone – I don’t think I can contribute anything useful to it.
Looking forward to checking out the links you’ve given, and I’ll have to go with Bufferin. Though I’m surprised it’s a suspect. I thought it left no traces of the pain…

]]> By: aFrankAngle http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-14005 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:40:07 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-14005 :)

]]> By: aFrankAngle http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-14004 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:39:50 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-14004 Starla,
The meaningless activity man is the overwhelming favorite on this post. Thanks for being at least the second person to watch the video – which I too thought was really cool. Thanks for commenting.

]]> By: aFrankAngle http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-14003 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:36:35 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-14003 Starla,
Glad you enjoyed Soma’s poem.

]]> By: aFrankAngle http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-14002 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:35:15 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-14002 Debra,
I like Peggy Noonan too – especially when she isn’t partisan. (I also enjoyed her book, Patriotic Grace). Meanwhile, I agree – this is going to be a very dishearting campaign road. Hope your weekend is going well and thanks for commenting.

]]> By: aFrankAngle http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-13995 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:20:14 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-13995 Les,
That headline has been the overwhelming favorite on this post. Glad you read Elyse’s good post. Thanks for visiting.

]]> By: bestbathroombooks http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-13983 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:23:59 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-13983 Frank! I’ll take “useless activity”….rings a bell lately. Read Elyse’s piece, excellent.
Have a great summer.

]]> By: Three Well Beings http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-13976 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 06:11:36 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-13976 Great articles…I keep them in a folder and eventually get to them. I will read Peggy Noonan first. I really like her! I enjoy your observations on the political sphere. This is going to be a long, disheartening road to November I fear! I look forward to the cartoon :-) Debra

]]> By: Elyse http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-13975 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:41:42 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-13975 Thanks John. And thanks Frank.

]]> By: John Erickson http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-13974 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:39:13 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-13974 Will do, my lady, though my response may have to wait until tomorrow. I was up rather early, NOT by my choosing (I am definitely not a morning person), so I might nod off somewhere in here. But I will get back to you as soon as I can, rest assured. Until then, have a good evening, and sorry for the hijack, Frank! :D

]]> By: Elyse http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-13973 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:31:34 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-13973 OK. (Forgive me Frank.) But I would love to hear your take on the story I posted on D-Day: http://fiftyfourandahalf.com/2012/06/05/a-d-day-question/

In deference to Frank, though, let me know your thoughts over there. (I am singing that song, of course).

]]> By: John Erickson http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-13972 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:28:15 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-13972 Oh, you do NOT want to encourage me! Frank can tell you how long and painfully I can bend an ear on things military. I spent the first 35 years of my life learning about the technology of war, especially WW2 – it was only when I started re-enacting that I began studying the human side, and learned of so many happy, sad, and just plain weird stories. If you need a good Halloween tale, look up the story of the B-24 “Lady Be Good”. She was a bomber returning to a North African base after a bombing run over Italy. She overflew the base by mistake and crashed in the desert. Her crew tried to walk out but died in the desert. The creepy part was, the salvage crew that found her pulled a number of parts off her to use on other aircraft. EVERY plane that received a part of “Lady” crashed without trace, save one. An observation plane got an armrest – it then crashed into the Mediterranean, and the only part ever found was the armrest from “Lady”.
If you ever get to Dayton, Ohio, go to the USAF Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB. Over the visitor’s reception desk is a painting of “Lady”, crash-landed on the desert, with a shimmering ghost of the plane flying overhead. Gets me teary every time I see it. :)

]]> By: Elyse http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-13971 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:17:28 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-13971 Don’t on my account!

]]> By: John Erickson http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-13970 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:15:58 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-13970 Elyse, there is a group, supported by the Department of Defense, that continued to search to this day, to find EVERY soldier listed as “missing in action” and to return them to the US. A team just recently entered brand new areas of northern Vietnam, and a couple months ago, the recovery group brought home the crew of a World War 2 B-24 (used as a transport) from somewhere in the Pacific – one of the islands NW of Australia, though I forget exactly where.
The sad part of the Harris story is that the Army KNEW Lt. Harris was KIA, but somehow neglected to tell his widow. She only found out when a relative was doing some research on military records.
If you want a REAL heart-string tugger, look up the story of the 5 Sullivan brothers, lost in 1942 in the USS Juneau off Guadalcanal in the Pacific. And yes, their story was part of the inspiration for “Saving Private Ryan”. They also have had 2 Navy destroyers named after them, one which is preserved in Buffalo, New York.
Sorry, folks, I’ll shut up now. :D

]]> By: Elyse http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/opinions-in-the-shorts-vol-143/#comment-13969 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:08:52 +0000 http://afrankangle.wordpress.com/?p=6538#comment-13969 John, that is an incredibly beautiful story. And so sad. How many mysteries will always be unsolved in this (and other) wars.

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