Two Gents' Worth
November 22, 2024
One method to revise history is by omission. Take the hugely successful movie, “Dunkirk;” writer-director Christopher Nolan’s engrossing version of the last-minute evacuation of 330,000 allied troops, mostly British, surrounded and trapped by Nazi Panzer troops on a wisp of beach at the very northwest tip of France. Across the English Channel lies safety, 26…
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Jack Schwartz celebrated a birthday on Saturday – 102 years old. So, they threw him a little party – The Sequoia Woodturners Club of Central California, a collection of mostly senior citizens who love to repurpose beautiful chunks of dead trees into objets d’art — fruit bowls and weed pots (flower pots) and rolling pins…
Read More about Memorial DayIn the first one hundred days of the Trump Administration the Tweeter-In-Chief has accomplished just about everything he promised. But his most important accomplishment was impromptu — the swift and effective retaliation against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s use of poison gas against civilians. On Thursday evening (4/6/17) the U.S. Navy launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles…
Read More about The Trump DoctrineRichard Gutierrez was buried last Tuesday morning with Military Honors. A big crowd of family and friends gathered in the fog at Fresno Memorial Gardens. The War in Vietnam broke up his healthy young body all those years ago and he received a 100% disability, but it took this long for the wounds and…
Read More about The Night They Burned Old Main Down[This profile of Al Perry appeared in the December 2015 issue of Central California Life Magazine. It seems appropriate to present it again as the 12th Honor Flight visits Washington, DC with a contingent of 70 military veterans and their chaperones October 24-26. This will be Al Perry’s final flight. -BE] “I’ve got 63 World…
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