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Featured here is the baby in Ghostbusters 2, then and now. Cast? an added member of the Ghostbuster team. Crew? Those who did the animation and special effects. We are never an island. In fact it’s a series of Hello and Goodbye to an ensemble of folks. There were at minimum 4 when I was…
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The bully pulpit. Megaphone. Crowd herding. Stove piping. Gaslighting. You got the gist. Every so often, we thought of change or be the change only to find the grass is not quite greener. How about going back to when we were “freer” men? Only men? Our Colonial past, a nation of slaves in pursuit of…
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68-69 time frame. Average age: 21. 3/4 in support role i.e. in Long Binh, Cam Ranh Bay…where padlocks, lots of padlocks, we’re to secure troops supplies. The rest: in combat platoons. No R&R in sight. Often times, wounded. Carried and Covered in ponchos. We’re starting Middle School (to us, it’s Big League, since in Vietnam,…
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Things they carried. On a small boat. Up State, Up North. Draft-card burning. Bras burning. Hell No, We Won’t Go. Except this time, it’s Russian. Not long-hair hippies of a Woodstock era. I remember a concert by Paul McCartney in Moscow way back after the Iron Curtain fell. Youth everywhere just want to hold each…
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Just now, on live TV, I watched the crown, Queen’s, placed upon the altar. Rested on purple velvet. Royalty at rest. May she rest in peace. We all sooner or later join her. May we R.I.P. as well. The end. Most important event in all of life (we’ve got no say as to our lineage).…
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In this case, it’s quite symbolic. Kick it all the way up North, where they belong i.e. with the NE liberals, the humanitarian, rhetoric meets reality…Here. Your immigrants. Your heart delights. The political football. Venezuelan. Long ago, it was me. A local church which sponsored a Vietnamese refugee family was using me to motivate them…
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The 80’s music if you can recall: Boy George, the Police and Bowie. Concert for Bangladesh (My Sweet Lord) and of course, Eurythmics. Every move you make….I’ll be watching. My niece, in one of the early pictures, stood in the background, while I, foreground. She was watching me and whoever took the photo. We’re never…
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Sept 11th’s 21st anniversary. 19 hijackers. Turning Boeings into bombs. 3000 deaths. We’re all shocked to the core. Even today in looking back. How could people be that cruel? How could people be that courageous and selfless (to die for others to live). On that day, on flight (UA-93) we learned all about humanity and…
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The book, the movie and the song. Three-legged stool. “Where do I begin…” Love and death, hand in hand. Death in combat and Love during R&R. Cy-clo May (three-wheeled cycles) and cy-clo dap (just plain three-wheeled cycle, manual pedal). The GI’s Loved it. Today, the backpackers. Old French Quarters, New Orleans , Hanoi or Saigon.…
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Mark Chapman. The name that forever is associated with “The Jealous guy”. Not sure the song had anything to do with his pulling the trigger to kill John Lennon. The talented and the wannabe. Stardom and starstruck. Takes two to tango e.g. The Fan (De Niro and Wesley Snipes), Play Misty for Me (Clint Eastwood/Jessica…
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