Going to note for the record my outrage about the whore houses built and maintained by the Army during WWII in West Africa. I was watching the History Channel show on Sex and WWII and the short version is to deal with all the VD and malaria felling the black company soldiers stationed in West Africa through contact with the locals, the Army got local girls and built a bordello for the black soldiers (no whites were allowed). The company consisted of about 70 white officers and hundreds of black enlisted troops. The program was super secret and was only declassified in the 80's and clearly not well publicised when it was declassified. It was only after someone who was there wrote a book that anyone took any notice at all. I had never heard of it until tonight, but was annoyed especially because the author of the book so staunchly defended how the Army dealt with the problem. Holy crap.
I love my dog. We walked home tonight off lead. That is my buddy for real right there. She's an enormous pain-even now I am thinking of her nails clicking on the floor in the morning willing me awake to feed and walk her, but she's awesome. I never get sick of looking at her and wondering what she's thinking about. Dogs are magical.
And I like this guy. Funny.
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Holy crap indeed! One can only hope that there are equal numbers of good stories waiting to be brought to our attention.
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