06/17/13

Conflict in Syria

Big Red Car here.  Early morning this morning with a coffee at 6:30 AM.  Hope to get the transportation assignment but truthfully sometimes a Big Red Car likes to sleep in a bit.

Yawn — oh well.  Hey this business in Syria is getting very serious and dangerous for the United States.  Let’s chat about this impending conflict in Syria, eh?

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12/10/12

A Date Which Will Live in Infamy — the attack on Pearl Harbor

Big Red Car here in a somber mood.

This is how World War II started for the Americans.  The English and French had been fighting the Germans for some time now.

It was a devastating attack and almost destroyed the entire American Pacific Fleet.  But the Japanese failed to send in another wave (or two) and failed to destroy the fuel dump on Ford Island, the submarines and the aircraft carriers at sea.  The Japanese then turned tail and ran back to Japan.

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