Lt. General Joseph May Swing

Pacific Paratrooper

General Joseph Swing

It is only fitting that I introduce the man who lead the 11th Airborne Division before we continue on to Luzon.  Many called him “Uncle Joe”, but on the back of this photograph, Smitty wrote “My General.”

“A hero is a man noted for his feats of courage or nobility of purpose—especially one who has risked his life; a person prominent in some field, period, or cause by reason of his special achievements or contributions; a person of distinguished valor or fortitude; and a central personage taking an admirable part in any remarkable action or event; hence, a person regarded as a model.”

Joseph May Swing was born on 28 February 1894 in Jersey City and went to the public schools there, graduating in 1911 and entered West Point Military Academy directly.  He graduated 38th in the class of the star-studded class of 1915, famously known…

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Notes on the War in Ukraine

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[This is really a collection of short notes rather than a coherent article, but there are so many of them I decided to split them off into their own post.]

https://buffalonews.com/opinion/adam-zyglis-2022/collection_10d8d684-6f18-11ec-8781-d72e4b72c14d.html#2

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is in its second week now. Plan A was blitzkrieg: Occupation of the major cities, capture of Zelensky and the rest of the government, and NATO unable to get its act together on sanctions in time to matter. That plan failed due to fierce resistance from Ukrainians, poor planning and execution by the Russian army, and effective coordination between President Biden and the other NATO heads of state.

Plan B is the Grozny/Aleppo approach : bludgeon Ukraine into submission by knocking out utilities and shelling civilian areas. In the words of Tacitus: “They make a desert and call it peace.” That strategy will take longer, the Ukrainians might have too much spirit for…

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Minbari Mondays, and Two Lessons in “Messages from Earth” (B5:s3e8) About Language Learning!!

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

       This week we are trying to find ways to be happy about the fact that Ranger Mayann is prohibited from writing to us from Minbar. 

    This week’s lessons:

          1.  Writing by hand can be very helpful.

          2.  Learning to read a text in the original language is important.

 

            So, Delenn and Lenier, in an ironic take  on the Earth-Minbari War, take Sheridan back to his home space in a gorgeous new Minbari warship, while Ivanova gets a surprise breakfast that she really didn’t expect from Marcus, who happens to be fighting for his life at that moment …

   Also, notice that G’Kar uses an old style quill pen, and an inkwell for his writing!

   “It must be read in it’s mother tongue or not at all.”

Thank you, G’Kar!!

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  Let’s learn from this, and write, while learning languages for building community…

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On World Wildlife Day, the Animal Kingdom is not thriving

Petchary's Blog

There comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness . . . that time is now.

Wangari Maathai

Last week (March 3) was World Wildlife Day with the theme “Recovering Key Species for Ecosystem Restoration.” In Kenya, it was also Africa Environment Dayand Wangari Maathai Day– in honor of the Nobel Peace Prize winner, whose life and work is uniquely inspiring. Her daughter Wanjira continues her work and is very much focused on teaching youth. Her mother was not only a passionate environmentalist, but she also cared about vulnerable human beings, too, and advocated for them – and quite regularly got herself into trouble, being a political as well as social and environmental activist. She was discriminated against as a woman and told to be quiet by the Kenyan President Arap Moi. She was concerned about planting trees, through her

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Ler é um ato fascinante

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Todo amante da leitura sabe como ler algo fascinante. Ler inspira, nos faz conhecer infinitas possibilidade, e ainda relativa a importância de certos fatos, porque o ato de ler muda o nosso cérebro, digo ” a maneira de pensar, de vermos o mundo”.

Ler é gostoso. É tão bom que o nosso emocional fica horas sentindo aquela sensação prazerosa das “ideias filosofando na mente “. É o bem-estar que uma boa leitura nos provoca.

Quando pegamos um livro, não se absorve só as informações, mas a energia que muitas vezes dilui aquela sensação de ansiedade. Já sentiu isso? É tranquilizadora. Primeiro, você busca concluir cada capítulo por dentro, digo ” na sua forma de interpretar a história “. Em seguida, inspirando lentamente, solta o ar, olha para um lugar fixo, e se torna um modesto avaliador da mensagem que o autor desejou passar. (…) Quando percebe , nunca mais esquece…

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