JUNGLE JUICE Letter X

Pacific Paratrooper

K-P Duty

In Dobodura, New Guinea, the 457th began to notice severe shortages in their sugar supply.  As it turned out, there was a major boot-legging operation in progress.  With the absence of alcohol, the men felt necessity would be the mother of invention, but they were caught with their stills in production.  The makeshift liquor companies were immediately put out of business.

My father had other ideas.  The following letter was one I never tired of reading; it always gives me a chuckle or two.  My father’s ingenuity was unfailing.  He used to tell me, “If you think hard enough, there’s a solution to every problem.”  After years of having tended bar, this was going to  be right up Smitty’s alley.

Letter # 10 has been previously published by “Whistling Shade” magazine in 2007.  I submitted it during their war story inquiry.  And also, in The Miller Family’s “Soldiers’ Stories vol…

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Un día, a cierta hora…

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Una mañana incierta, de improviso, ya no calzaré mis sandalias para andar contigo, con ustedesm con ellos. Mis huellas no quedarán registradas más en caminos sucesivos, en rutas nuevas, y quedarán, empolvadas, en antiguos trayectos. Quizá al mediodía, a partir de alguna fecha desconocida, ya no beberé ni comeré a tu lado, entre ellos, frente a todos, porque andaré, sin olvidarlos, en busca de ricos manjares. Una tarde -acaso cálida, probablemente nevada, quizá de lluvia, tal vez de viento-, mi bolígrafo y mi libreta de apuntes quedarán desolados, entre los sigilos y los rumores de lo que escribí, resignados, seguramente, a permanecer sobre el escritorio, en mi taller de artista, presos en alguna caja o sin duda en la basura, en un naufragio extraño, en un delirio patético ante el naufragio, la desmemoria y la ausencia de autor y…

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On Boot-Lickers, Pakistan, and Karen

Filosofa's Word

The snark-o-meter is spinning madly tonight … partly, I think, from being treated to an hour or so of my daughter’s bagpipe practice 🧏 !  But there’s more than that … there is … life.  Reality.  News.  Politics.  People.


Why oh why are they still licking his boots???

I will never understand why the Republican Party has hitched its wagon to the former guy and won’t let go.  NEWS FLASH, Republicans … Donald Trump is NO LONGER the president of this nation, he has absolutely ZERO power, unless you give it to him.  He was, on the whole, the single worst, most corrupt president the United States has ever known, and we breathed a collective sigh of relief on January 20th of this year when the former guy went back to his estate at Mar-a-Lago and President Joe Biden took the oath of office.

The congressional Republicans are…

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Denmark: year of the Zombie-Minks — World Animals Voice

Barbara Crane Navarro

Millions of minks have been killed in Denmark due to a mutation in the coronavirus. Now the animal carcasses are causing a lot of trouble for the authorities. Millions of furry animals hurriedly buried break out of their graves: What looks like a scene from a horror film is real in Denmark – and forces[…]

Denmark: year of the Zombie-Minks — World Animals Voice

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