Old Weird Ward
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Tuesday, December 07, 2004
- - - - - Day of Infamy - - - - -
Today is Pearl Harbor Day.
When I was growing up, the vets of WW2 were all around me.
My Dad, my best friend's Dad, the cop on the beat, the fireman down at the firehouse, our pastor at the Presbyterian church. They were teachers, and engineers on railroads, and politicians, and mechanics. Store owners, bankers, lawyers and doctors. They were everywhere. Being a vet of WW2 wasn't an unusual thing at all.
And today marks the 63rd anniversary of the day that started them all on the road.
They're leaving us now, there are fewer every year to mark Pearl Harbor Day.
When I was in the US Navy, the WW2 vets were starting to retire on thirty years of service. One of the guys, a Master Chief, was an 18-year-old who had been in the Navy for less than a year when he reported aboard his ship in Pearl Harbor on December 3rd, 1941. His ship, a destroyer, escaped damage, but he remembered, and talked a little bit about, trying to fight fires Battleship Row.
- - - - - Street Names - - - - -
In any geographic locale, there are place names that are related to the area's history or geography.
For instance, there's a town in the Bay Area named "Mountain View", and by gum, you can see parts of the Coastal Range there.
Something I've noticed when driving around SouthEast Georgia, especially here in Camden County, is the number of roads with the word "Bluff" in their names. I have yet to see the geographical feature known as a "bluff" here. The highest natural landmass in Camden County is 18 feet above sea level. This place is flatter than Kansas likes to brag about.
Yet there are roads named Scrubby Bluff, Simmons Bluff, and intriguingly, Harriets Bluff.
So my question is: Why was Harriet bluffing, what was she bluffing with, and what were the stakes?
Enquiring minds want to know....
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