December 9th, 2008
Post Cards
A postcard refers to a commercially printed card having space on one of its sides, for short messages including the address and the postage stamp. As the name denotes, post cards are sent through the postal services, and come with various types of bright pictures on one of its two sides. The shape of postcards is typically rectangular and they are made of thick paper or thin cardboard. The specialty of postcards lies in the advantage, of the flexibility of posting them without envelopes. The space of attaching postal stamps on the other side of the picture is sufficient enough for postal purposes, making them attractive and comparatively cheaper than the postal charges of sending an envelope.
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December 9th, 2008
Any War Just as Cruel
I was sitting yesterday, listening to a song, “The Cruel War”, sung by Peter, Paul, and Mary, the same song that was playing on a radio in a cafй Panasonic AG-DVX100BE in San Bernardino, California while I was there in 1972 eating a piece of apple pie, considering the reasons for having enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. At the time, there was an especially high casualty report coming out of Saigon, in Vietnam, revealing that 150 marines and soldiers had been killed that day in skirmishes with the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet-Cong. The report had solemnly followed the ноутбук ibm song, and I recall finishing my pie, stepping down from the bar, and barking a loud “Marine Corps!” followed by a guttural “OORAUGH.” My closely cropped hair and military demeanor instantly identified me to the variety of people sitting in the cafй as a U.S. Marine, a jarhead, sometimes referred to as underpaid, oversexed, teenage killers, as was coined by Eleanor Roosevelt. The reactions I got from the other patrons in the cafe were not what I’d expected. Instead of rousing cheers, such as what met GI’s returning home from the Second World War, I got censuring hateful stares. One woman, a little older than me, gloweringly stood up at her table and said something like,
“How could you condone more killing after listening to that song?” But like water that hastens off a duck’s feathered back, the words she said were meaningless to me. They were repressive and maddening. My mentality couldn’t, at that time, handle any presumption that I was anything less than the sword of God striking vengeance against a heathen communist hoard who was slaughtering my fellow marines. Killing to me was second nature, and I found pleasure in my business.
Yesterday, while dwelling on the words of “The Cruel War,” some poignant thoughts went threw my mind as I reflected on the changes which had occurred in me prior to the fall of Saigon in 1975, that had drastically altered my perception of the Vietnam War. Numerous factors went into my social and political transformation. Nothing, though, had more impact on my thoroughly military mentality than a personal de-programming, which had involved an acceptance of the cold hard fact and a disregard for the rabid propaganda forced on me by the Pentagon during boot camp.
If I hadn’t enlisted in the Marine Corps, I would have been drafted shortly after my nineteenth birthday. My lottery number was 27, and I might have ended up in the Army. But I chose to join the Vietnam-era Marine Corps to avenge a friend’s tragic death. That was my pressing vengeful goal in life. On arriving at MCRD, San Diego, my entire world began to revolve around learning how to kill men in a variety of ways and to stay alive while doing it. It was ultimately a process of conformity. I had a choice to eithe
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December 9th, 2008
Successfully Handling Buried Lies
We’ve all been there, a mishit shot, the golf ball buries in the greenside bunker, and we’re left wondering to ourselves, what in the heck do I do with this?
Well read on and you’ll wonder no longer because here is exactly how to set up and play this most difficult bunker shot.
1. Set up with the face of your golf club pointing down the target line or in other words square to the intended target line.
2. Set your feet square to the target line or just a slight bit open if that feels more comfortable to you. Unlike a shot from a good lie in a greenside bunker, you absolutely want the club to dig into the sand under the ball rather than having it cut under the golf ball in a slicing motion. This is the reason we
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