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22 Apr 2008, 5:54 am
that and these are due in tomorrow. i have NO idea why they are so fascinating, but even as a little kid i could identify them by their engine sounds. there have been times they've flown over the house and woke me out of a dead sleep.
so, tomorrow (and most days this week) i'll go after work and sit on the hill overlooking where they are and wait for them to do their thing - they'll go over so close i can see the pilot's faces.
sigh. wish i had a spare $425 to buy a ticket. but i don't so i'll sit and watch and think about how if these, some of the last ones still flying, hadn't been flying almost 70 years ago i'd have been culled at birth and everyone else would be speaking german.
ya'll have a good week.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_elvlp6yV8[/youtube]
B-17K crew , England
Dad is lower right, they were in a Pathfinder group and did 25 missions, all returned safely. Dad was a waist gunner, armorer (armed the bombs).
The copilot went on to become a fighter ace in Korea, and was killed in a pot plane crash in Florida. I guess some never got the excitement out of themselves.
The few things Dad did tell me about the War weren't real pleasant and I had to ask, he never talked about it much.
My first time on a B-17 was when my cousin belonged to a war plane group. We did go up in a vintage WW2 trainer and flew over the lake house, he asked me if I wanted to steer the damn thing, guess what I said. Yup, get your freakin hands back on the stick, you idiot and stop laughing. I didn't go up in the 17 there or when they moved all the planes to Big Flats NY, which is about 45 minutes from here (National Warplane Museum). The one B-17 they have flying use to fly over the house all the time, but haven't seen it in a while. Not sure what they charge for a ride anymore, but Harris Hill is near as well and glider rides are or were reasonable. No engine noise, just the wind.
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22 Apr 2008, 4:41 pm
Liam, my son in the photo, can't stop looking at it. He wasn't actually invited into that photo. He snuck in and did that beautiful pose.
He thinks he is hilarious. He's been saying, 'I tricked you!!'
Postpaleo, loved the photo of your Dad.
At work, I run a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program for people with chronic lung disease (COPD - emphysema, chronic bronchitis, cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis etc etc). It's an outpatient program and participants come 2/week for 8 weeks.
In our last program 4 of the 14 particpants were Vietnam Vets and 2 had PTSD. We are starting another program and again we have 3 Vietnam Vets.
We're anticipating we will continue to have a few Vietnam Vets in every group - I'll need to start doing some research about their experiences.
Any Vietnam Vets in the Dino-Cafe? Any suggested reading?
Helen
22 Apr 2008, 6:18 pm
lurking....
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/scien ... obe&st=nyt
Spent all day trying to find a link for a new WPer from an article I read in the past week...I cleared my history and can't seem to find it and it was really interesting.
MRI seems to indicate that young autistics actually have "to many" neurons in their frontal lobe and they are so thick that they have problems getting t the right connections, like a traffic jam. Many of those are pruned as we age and allow for more connections....thus, this is a developmental delay of sorts. It is theorized by ne individual that the over growth is induced by environemental stressors that benefit from the resulting "creativity" and other traits of the autistic brain. I'm not describing this well, which is why I was hoping to find the link to give the person.
Anyway...while looking I got lost in many other interesting articles, as usual....(it was 10am last time I looked and is now 6pm and my BF says...what about dinner? 
)
This got me thinking about an accident I had when I was about 16. I fell down while drinking and was knocked unconcious ad woke (naked) with a large bloody lump on my forhead...I am wondering if that has cause d some peoblems for me? So I was just checking out the left frontal lobe and found a lot of over lap in it's "damage" and AS....hummmm
Off to slay a bison for the old man to eat, bbl
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22 Apr 2008, 9:29 pm
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22 Apr 2008, 11:50 pm
Liam, my son in the photo, can't stop looking at it. He wasn't actually invited into that photo. He snuck in and did that beautiful pose.
He thinks he is hilarious. He's been saying, 'I tricked you!!'Postpaleo, loved the photo of your Dad.
At work, I run a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program for people with chronic lung disease (COPD - emphysema, chronic bronchitis, cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis etc etc). It's an outpatient program and participants come 2/week for 8 weeks.
In our last program 4 of the 14 particpants were Vietnam Vets and 2 had PTSD. We are starting another program and again we have 3 Vietnam Vets.
We're anticipating we will continue to have a few Vietnam Vets in every group - I'll need to start doing some research about their experiences.
Any Vietnam Vets in the Dino-Cafe? Any suggested reading?
Helen
how 'bout some movies?
I found oneAussie Vietnam war films but I have not seen it. Tom Jeffrey’s film of "The Odd Angry Shot." Some really good ones are Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy "Platoon" "Born on the Fourth of July" and "Heaven and Earth" Francis Ford Cappola's APOCALYPSE NOW "Full Metal Jacket" "Gardens of Stone" and
oh, here is the whole list. .. my first husband was in the 101st Airborne Division Airborne Ranger (lived his life on guts and danger!) and in VietNam from 1965 to 1968 went AWOL in Sigon and became a junkie, which he kicked when he got home in Upstate New York on straight Tequila. I met him in Berkeley, CA when he was running pot and acid to the distributers on the street there at the college. Good times, Good times. Anyway I always was welcome anytime the 'boys' got together and we all watched these movies, because it was good therapy for them and for me, cause I never went there, but it affected me in ways I am not even aware of.
International List of Films of the VietNam war
loves ya, Helen
Merle
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23 Apr 2008, 12:22 am
Liam, my son in the photo, can't stop looking at it. He wasn't actually invited into that photo. He snuck in and did that beautiful pose.
He thinks he is hilarious. He's been saying, 'I tricked you!!'Postpaleo, loved the photo of your Dad.
At work, I run a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program for people with chronic lung disease (COPD - emphysema, chronic bronchitis, cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis etc etc). It's an outpatient program and participants come 2/week for 8 weeks.
In our last program 4 of the 14 particpants were Vietnam Vets and 2 had PTSD. We are starting another program and again we have 3 Vietnam Vets.
We're anticipating we will continue to have a few Vietnam Vets in every group - I'll need to start doing some research about their experiences.
Any Vietnam Vets in the Dino-Cafe? Any suggested reading?
Helen
how 'bout some movies?
I found oneAussie Vietnam war films but I have not seen it. Tom Jeffrey’s film of "The Odd Angry Shot." Some really good ones are Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy "Platoon" "Born on the Fourth of July" and "Heaven and Earth" Francis Ford Cappola's APOCALYPSE NOW "Full Metal Jacket" "Gardens of Stone" and
oh, here is the whole list. .. my first husband was in the 101st Airborne Division Airborne Ranger (lived his life on guts and danger!) and in VietNam from 1965 to 1968 went AWOL in Sigon and became a junkie, which he kicked when he got home in Upstate New York on straight Tequila. I met him in Berkeley, CA when he was running pot and acid to the distributers on the street there at the college. Good times, Good times. Anyway I always was welcome anytime the 'boys' got together and we all watched these movies, because it was good therapy for them and for me, cause I never went there, but it affected me in ways I am not even aware of.
International List of Films of the VietNam war
loves ya, Helen
Merle
Interesting list, Merle. Personally, I would say "The Deer Hunter" and "Apocalypse Now Redux" are my favortes.
Unfortuneately, there has not been a good DVD release of "The Deer Hunter" in the states that I know of.
23 Apr 2008, 12:24 am
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23 Apr 2008, 3:15 am
Postie, I think what Merle means is that when you put a photo into your post which is wider than the screen, the whole page changes in width to accommodate it. Then a scroll bar appears at the bottom of the page, and to view the right side of the page, and the text in everyone's posts, you have to scroll back and forth. Myself I don't mind that too much. And it was a good photo of your dad's squadron.
Today I visited the Aspie support group that syzygyish attends on Queensland's Gold Coast. He has redesigned his hug machine. I gave it a try, and it is indeed a great de-stressor. I've never been in one of those flotation tanks, the kind that are used for relaxation and sensory deprivation, but I imagine the experience would be similar. I hope syzygyish is able to patent his invention and make big bikkie$ from it!
Tomorrow Robyn and Jim are coming for a visit, yay! 
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