Thanks, I'm staying in bed with the DAMN covers over my head until December 9th. Thanks a million. I'll be sitting with my laptop, under the blankets playing chess. Wait, I might get hit by a power surge and get fried. Change of plans: just sit silently under blankets and wait until Tuesday!
Triple Tragedy Weekend
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Ha, LucidDream, I'm wearing a snorkle that's poking up through the hole I cut in my wife's favorite blanket!
Whole world is united in this and stands by the victims to remember our vulnerability. Let us all pray for them together. Let work together to avoid future calamities by staying in peace and adhering to principles of non-violence.
And PLAY CHESS!
wow, u remember that billium428 or did u just look up in the internet, sounds scary to me... :'(
Tiger-13 wrote:
wow, u remember that billium428 or did u just look up in the internet, sounds scary to me... :'(
My grandmother is one of the last living survivors of the Halifax Explosion. I have been to Pearl Harbor, and I love John Lennon as a great man of peace. I remember this weekend each year.
Sorry but to be honest with you I never heard of the Halifax Explosion.
As for John Lennon, his music is missed for sure his political point of views maybe not so much at times.
Pearl Harbor lead directly to the Greatest Generation of Americans (maybe of the whole world) ever plan and simple when you look at what they did as a whole.
Just my point of view!
Yeah, a whole lot of people don't know about the Halifax Explosion, which is actually kind of surprising that no one talks about it the way they talk about the Titanic or the Hindenberg.
It was the largest man-made explosion prior to the atomic bomb. Thousands of people were killed. Thousands more injured (my grandma is the only one in her family who was unharmed). The whole town was basically destroyed, and the next day (while everyone was still sleeping in the school gym) one of the worst winter snow falls in years dropped down on them making all the rescue and recovery operations that much more difficult, and the death toll that much higher.
Essentially what happened was 2 ships collided, and one of them was full of explosives on it's way over to World War I. Just like the Titanic tragedy inspired many new laws about ice berg patrols and 24-hour emergency radio monitoring, the Halifax Explosion inspired new international laws regarding how many explosives are allowed to be carried on a single vessel.
One of my students today was wearing a John Lennon T-shirt today. I thought that was pretty cool that he remembered what today was, and cared enuf about it to dress accordingly, even tho it happened before he was born.
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This is Triple Tragedy Weekend:
December 6, 1917 - The Halifax Explosion (largest accidental explosion ever).
December 7, 1941 - The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
December 8, 1980 - The Assassination of John Lennon
Let us not forget.