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Minbari Mondays, All Alone in the Night, and Deadly Struggles

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

      This  week’s set of incidents is the 11th report for our Earth standard year 2259, sent to us from our future by Ranger Mayann, writing to us from Minbar, where she is stationed:

      Greetings, from Tuzanor:

     The three incidents of this report, only one of which takes place on your Babylon station, will have important repercussions for our Babylon station, once known as Babylon 4.  All are life and death struggles, and all are crucial history to The Anla’Shok.  For this reason, I take the time, in  what is now your earth year 2278, to write to you.  I write from over 200 years in your future, to tell you that you are not all alone in the night.  The Anla’Shok “have always been here” waiting for you.

Since your year 1260, in any case.

 

The first struggle is that of Delenn, who has made…

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Hubo un antes y un después

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Hubo un antes y un después, un tiempo y una historia previos a coincidir con usted, y un instante y otros más, posteriores a nuestro encuentro. Existen muchos antes que, acumulados, parecen llenar una vida, cubrir una biografía; pero un día, a cierta hora, aparecen los rasgos de uno e incontables después, que dan un sentido más certero, un motivo jstificable y pleno al viaje. Y usted apareció en mi historia, en mi vida, tras muchos ayeres en los que la presentía y ya la extrañaba, con la posibilidad de innumerables presentes y mañanas a su lado, en el amor en una barca que navega hacia el infinito. Hubo un antaño desprovisto de su imagen, ausente de su presencia, con síntomas graduales y periódicos de que algo, en la corriente etérea, floraba latente, fluía y me recordaba que había…

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Smitty’s Letter XV “Land”

Pacific Paratrooper

Native outrigger canoes meet up with a Coast Guard transport.

[Please do not be offended by certain remarks, remember that these letters were written 77 years ago when people lived in another time and another world].

As the ships drew closer to Leyte, the American soldiers already on shore were being hampered by logistical problems which caused a severe delay in capturing the island.  When the 11th A/B division arrived on Bito Beach, General Hodge was finally able to move General Arnold’s 7th division and their plans started to come together.

Leyte activity map | enlarge for detail

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Letter XV                                         Landing                        Somewhere in the Philippines

Dear Mom,

We landed here in the Philippines yesterday morn, but before leaving the ship, the Japs treated us with their honorable (?) presence in the form of bombing planes.  Shore batteries kept hammering at them in the gloom of a misty a.m. and…

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“They want to find GOLD, it was their greed that killed most of our elders long ago! White men with money want more. They want to destroy more. It is their tradition: they have no limits! »| Barbara Crane Navarro

Source: “They want to find GOLD, it was their greed that killed most of our elders long ago! White men with money want more. They want to destroy more. It is their tradition: they have no limits! »| Barbara Crane Navarro

Our Actions are Our Future…EVERY DAY is #World Food Day! — Retired? No one told me!

Barbara Crane Navarro

Today October 16th 2021 the UN is making a callfor action to make healthy and sustainable diets available and affordable to everyone. For the second year running, the world marks #WorldFoodDaywhilst continuing to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. This year, the World Food Day commemorations will be jointly led by the Food and Agriculture Organisation( FAO),[…]

Our Actions are Our Future…#World Food Day… 16th October 2021. — Retired? No one told me!

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Comunidades indígenas changas rechazan la tramitación del proyecto Dominga — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

Barbara Crane Navarro

El Mostrador 21/10/2021 Cinco comunidades changas firmaron una declaración donde expresan que los antecedentes revelados en las últimas semanas sobre la compra-venta de Dominga que involucran a la familia Piñera-Morel constituyen un punto relevante en el rechazo del proyecto por parte de los changos. «Los casos de corrupción, faltas a la ética y probidadde…

Comunidades indígenas changas rechazan la tramitación del proyecto Dominga — Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros de América Latina

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