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Unlocked Post: I Remember Townsend...
I'm passing this along because it is said far more eloquently and coherently than I ever could. When I heard about the Disney/ABC "docu-drama" of September 11th in which they place a majority, if not all, of the blame on the shoulders of President Clinton... Outraged is an understatement. And then to hear that Scholastic was producing books and study guides based on that piece of drek to be used in schools? Appalled and disgusted.
There is a huge divide between history and propaganda -- something that people need to keep in mind. Please click on the link and read this. It's well worth the time and needs to be said (hence the unlocked post).
I Remember Townsend... by
liz_marcs
It was the 50th anniversary of VJ Day (Victory over Japan).
I remember this because there was already the undertone of fall in the air as we headed into the Labor Day weekend. The kids weren't in school because I remember them lolling around the common and doing wheelies on their bikes.
I was a reporter at the time (a young one, but still a reporter). My mission for the day was to do a man-on-the-street article to add some local flava to the remembrance. I had a photographer in tow and no clue where to start. I may be a history nut and a half, but even I didn't know when VJ Day was (well prior to this assignment anyway).
I figured 90% of the people I talked to would be in my boat. They only knew because the media was making a big deal out of it, but were otherwise completely ignorant about the matter.
Say what you will about us Yanks, but we know how to make an event out of just about anything.
The sad fact is VJ Day, rightly or wrongly, had about as much bearing on our daily lives as what our neighbors had for breakfast that morning. That is to say that it seemed to have none at all.
Read the rest here.
There is a huge divide between history and propaganda -- something that people need to keep in mind. Please click on the link and read this. It's well worth the time and needs to be said (hence the unlocked post).
I Remember Townsend... by
liz_marcsIt was the 50th anniversary of VJ Day (Victory over Japan).
I remember this because there was already the undertone of fall in the air as we headed into the Labor Day weekend. The kids weren't in school because I remember them lolling around the common and doing wheelies on their bikes.
I was a reporter at the time (a young one, but still a reporter). My mission for the day was to do a man-on-the-street article to add some local flava to the remembrance. I had a photographer in tow and no clue where to start. I may be a history nut and a half, but even I didn't know when VJ Day was (well prior to this assignment anyway).
I figured 90% of the people I talked to would be in my boat. They only knew because the media was making a big deal out of it, but were otherwise completely ignorant about the matter.
Say what you will about us Yanks, but we know how to make an event out of just about anything.
The sad fact is VJ Day, rightly or wrongly, had about as much bearing on our daily lives as what our neighbors had for breakfast that morning. That is to say that it seemed to have none at all.
Read the rest here.
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Unlocked Post: LJ problems
I know some people on my friends list are having trouble reading my posts (in other words, can't read them at all because they can't log in) since the new sub-domain name changes that LJ has instituted. randombastary was one of them, and between the two of us, we figured out it was a problem with her browser. I poked around over at the 
news community and it's not an isolated problem.
I told Kris to download Mozilla Firefox. I had vaguely in the back of my mind noticed that no Mozilla browser users that I knew of were having huge problems other than the initial ones the first few days after the change. And poof, all log-in problems disappeared.
Just an FYI, if you're one of the IE users who are having log-in issues.
randombastary was one of them, and between the two of us, we figured out it was a problem with her browser. I poked around over at the news community and it's not an isolated problem.I told Kris to download Mozilla Firefox. I had vaguely in the back of my mind noticed that no Mozilla browser users that I knew of were having huge problems other than the initial ones the first few days after the change. And poof, all log-in problems disappeared.
Just an FYI, if you're one of the IE users who are having log-in issues.
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