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    Today in History

    Key point is "rural". My parents, aunts, uncles, etc. were poor and lived out in the country (Tennessee) and had no radios. (Or maybe they didn't have any radios that they did have turned on.) My dad told about how he just happened to go to the local general store and heard about it on the...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Don't completely give up hope yet. I once had a letter that took 11 days to get from Nashville to West Virginia.
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    combat jacket query

    No - definitely not a tanker jacket (winter combat jacket). Among other differences, tanker jackets have ribbed knit cuffs and bottom. The closest thing I can see to that one is the M1941 arctic jacket. However, they were long and came down below your bottom to keep you warm. I think it's a...
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    "Has Johnny really nothing to satorially rebel against?", or "Is 'the look' dead?"

    As someone who was a teenager during the heart of the '60's this whole topic and various sub-topics are a gold mine of interesting ideas and recollections. (I turned 20 in 1968.) Jimmy Hoffa: I have a totally unique view on a part of the Hoffa saga - particularly his crimes and later trial and...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    "Dick Tracy would shoot without hesitation. Just sayin'." Forget Dick Tracy - think what Fearless Fosdick would do in that situation... (And would then do a sales pitch for Wildroot Cream-Oil...)
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    You could take the jeep driver out of the "Private Snafu" category if he is part of the security detail for the Holston Ordnance Works [HOW], located just a short distance east of Kingsport. That would be just about 20 miles from Johnson City - right in your railroad's area. HOW was...
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    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    In my first NASA research effort we would occasionally get some very odd experimental results. Someone would inevitably make the statement that we had: 1) disproved the accepted laws of physics and we should immediately go collect our Nobel Prize or 2) made some sort of mistake in the...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I don't know if it's a national or local brand, but "Mayfield" makes great ice cream. Their butter pecan has more nuts per volume of any that I have ever had. Tastes great, too... (not less filling)
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    That must be Private Snafu in that jeep. He's about 200 miles to the east of the eastern edge of the Tennessee Maneuvers area.
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    Clean Jokes

    More Emo Phillips, from back during the Cold War: "The Soviet Union is a strange mixture of evil and inefficiency - sort of like the Post Office with tanks."
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    They are everywhere - I saw two of them just last night. One was crossing the road, the other was walking along the side. Could *barely* see either one...
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    Army boots, Danish m/58. Which do you use?

    Those look exactly like US Army WWII service shoes. Probably not a coincidence since we supplied with military equipment Denmark after the war. I have done a lot of military reenacting over the years so I have a LOT of military-style boots: One original pair service shoes very much like yours...
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    Philosophical: "Nothing brings uns better forth on our way than a pause."

    I was thinking "Jack Benny" and you beat me to it... Other collective masters of the pause were the Marx Brothers. They had honed their live acts and comedy to the point that they allowed time in their movies for the laughter to start and finish before they went on to the next bit. At the...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Let me present some (probably) unpopular views on Charles Lindbergh, mostly gained from reading his book "War Diaries", covering the time period mid-1938 - mid-1945. It's just over 1000 pages, but it's an easy read, at least it was for me. I bought it in a used book store for $2, and intended...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I have done a lot of writing, but it was almost all in the engineering and science fields, so I haven't used many "fronted non-finite clauses" and if I ever did I certainly didn't know what they were called. This reminds me of when mathematicians were allowed to write math textbooks for...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    I bought one of those old "muscle relaxation" devices at a flea market as a curiosity from the past. It was amazing to think that people in those days would plug it into 110v(!) and then "go to town". The idea of that much voltage near delicate areas is scary just to think about.
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    Cowboy Boots

    Proceed with caution on the full resole. We have a first-rate shoe repair shop here and I took a pair of WWII service shoes in to have a full re-sole. The shoes looked really good on the outside and were nice and soft but when the old sole was removed the lower/inner part had dried out and...
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    WW2 Tours

    I'm reasonably sure the folks behind you didn't know what you really meant, and possibly thought you were from Memphis and were slightly upset that Nashville had stolen the glory of Sun Records. A lot of people think that Sun was in Nashville - including whomever wrote the lyrics to the song...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That expression never made it the ~200 miles from southern Appalachia to Nashville. That's the first time I have ever heard it.
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    B-17 crash outside Hartford

    You're right that fatigue failure is the enemy - one source of which in modern aircraft is the number of pressurization and depressurization cycles. Look up "Aloha Airlines 737 fatigue failure" and you'll see a very scary sight. I won't give it away but it's worth the price of admission just...
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