Monthly Archives: June 2012

60 Years Under QEII

June 3, 2012 – 10:28 am

Less than a week after my birth Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ascended the throne at a time of transition of the British Empire into the Commonwealth and the UK celebrated her sixty year of ruling Britain, even though Her sovereign nation has shrunken across the globe to Great Britian and Occupied Ulster as well as the […]

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No Helicopters Over Brooklyn

June 1, 2012 – 10:26 am

Manhattan was a noisy borough. Sirens filled the canyons. Trucks and cars blow their horns, Helicopters fly overhead. There were even more noises from the alley behind my East 10th Street apartment. My windows were usually open. I didn’t believe in AC. My alarm clock for several years was a young Jamaican girl, who woke […]

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Two More

June 1, 2012 – 9:27 am

Steven Sutton RIP Julian C Chase RIP Today The New York Times added Julian C Chase of Maryland and Steven Sutton from Georgia to The Names Of The Dead bringing the total of soldiers killed in Afghanistan to 1976. There is no mention of either man in drudgereport.com, cnn.com, or Fox News. Marine Julian C […]

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