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Incredible Photos of Soviet Women Snipers in World War II ~ Vintage Everyday
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| Lyudmila Pavlichenko in combat at Sevastopol. With 309 confirmed kills, she was one the deadliest snipers in history, June 1942. |
Source: Incredible Photos of Soviet Women Snipers in World War II ~ Vintage Everyday
Fishing at Sea Created at Least 75% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – Slashdot
Plastic emissions from rivers remain the main source of plastic pollution from a global ocean perspective. Plastic lost at sea has a higher chance of accumulating offshore than plastic emitted from rivers, leading to high concentrations of fishing-related debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch [or GPGP]. New findings confirm the oceanic garbage patches cannot be cleaned solely through river interception and highlight the potentially vital role of fishing and aquaculture in ridding the world’s oceans of plastic…. Source: Fishing at Sea Created at Least 75% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – Slashdot
Russia releases convicted mass murderer to fight in Ukraine, then awards him ‘for bravery’
Ivan Neparatov, leader of a Russian criminal gang, was serving 25 years for five murders and multiple other crimes when he was offered his freedom and money in exchange for fighting Russia’s war against Ukraine. He was one of at very least one thousand convicted criminals who have agreed to fight in the Wagner unit, and one of an unknown number who have already been killed. It is likely that all such ‘fighters’ are intentionally used as cannon fodder, to avoid questions upon their return to Russia, but Neparatov did, nonetheless, posthumously receive a state award ‘for bravery’ from Russian leader Vladimir Putin. One assumes that certain details about this ‘defender of Russia’ will be omitted from any official documentation.
The issue is not only Neparatov’s criminal past. It is illegal in Russia to be a mercenary, yet the so-called ‘Wagner private military company’ [the Wagner unit] are openly recruiting convicted criminals, offering substantial amounts of money, as well as the promise of freedom in exchange for agreeing to fight against Ukraine. The prisoners are visited in prison, with the Wagner unit recruiters accompanied by Penal Service officials and members of the FSB [Security Service]. At least some of the recruiting visits are reported to be with the head of the Wagner unit, Dmitry Utkin and its financer, Yevgeny Prigozhin, or ‘Putin’s chef’, the millionaire under western sanctions who is himself a convicted criminal, imprisoned twice for violent crimes.
Source: Russia releases convicted mass murderer to fight in Ukraine, then awards him ‘for bravery’
Chien aviateur | Aviator Dog — VOYAGE ONIRIQUE

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Chien aviateur | Aviator Dog — VOYAGE ONIRIQUE
I’ve been on the battlefield

A poem in Vietnamese by Thanh Dang
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
I’ve been on the battlefield
Through our eyes, a lifetime is not enough to forget
Ukraine, who’s pushed you into such sadness
How could one human to another make an ocean of tears
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I want to hold you child, together we’ll cry
No longer could I volunteer to be by your lover fight
The young people of Vietnam did once lay down their lives
The bitterness resided in our heart may it be North or South
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You will die child, out on the battlefield you will die
What’s left of your wins will be a nation of decimated cities
Shredded villages
The graves long with more graves
The entire nation’s a graveyard
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I feel sorry for your loss and mine to have been…
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The Book of Life

A poem in Vietnamese by Thanh Dang
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
For some
Waiting are the mountains and rivers
Otherwise it will be a long road
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The Book of Life
Fire and ice
The awakening of human fate
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But to him it’s simple
Flowers means life
Across the land is sunlight…
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May 2022
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Ở đó sông chờ và núi đợi
Ai khác
Con đường thành thăm thẳm xa
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Quyển sách ngàn đời mở
Băng tan lửa đỏ
Thao thức phận người
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Chỉ tội chàng đơn giản
Hoa của đời và nắng của trăm phương…
Thanh Dang, the poet from Vietnam currently resides in Houston, Texas, U. S. A.
Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney…
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The long journeys are the turning points in one’s life

A poem in Vietnamese by Thanh Dang
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
The long journeys are the turning points in one’s life
You’ve come home, or have I
Forgot how to come home…
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June 2022
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Trang đời những chuyến đi xa
Em về, hay chỉ
Còn ta, quên về…
Thanh Dang, the poet from Vietnam currently resides in Houston, Texas, U. S. A.
Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.
The Vietnam War and me

A poem in Vietnamese by Nguyễn Bắc Sơn
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
The Vietnam War and me
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Boulders propped up in the dried up stream
The breeze cut across the new grass at the edge of the jungle
Our unit advanced like crouching tigers
Bloodshot eyes cold and chilling
The exhausting manoeuvers, four times a day
Caught in moments of rest in jest and banter
Our backs relaxed against tree trunks, looked up at the sky…
Imagined ourselves on a picnic
Oh enemy oh guerrilla
Move aside, forget about firing you guns
Move aside, I’m begging you
I’m in no mood for a fight
Pining for a bottle of beer, a puff of cigarette
Pining for the bird song from the lips of my sweetheart
Oh my tattooed enemy
Consuming rock salt thirsting for a fight
Like you I’m a soldier…
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MEMORIES
I won’t say I’m old any more. I’ll say “well-seasoned”. Well, in my state of being well-seasoned my mind continues to pop up ancient jingles. Sometimes they are followed by memories associated with them. For instance, the phrase “would you rather be a mule?” Thanks to Google, I found the line to be from a 1944 Bing Crosby song, “Swinging On A Star”:
And be better off than you are
Or would you rather be a mule… https://www.youtube.com ›
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