Local Color

It speaks for itself, but this was noticed a week ago.
I felt bad about posting it, for a brief moment. Being passportless can be a hindrance, to the INS for identification process. And ICE. And all those Gubb'mint TLA organizations. And we landed France sixty-five years ago yesterday to help rid them and the Euro-subcontinent of the Teutonic National Socialist One-World Party.

Forty years ago I was eleven years old we visited Omaha Beach and the vast cemetery. It was something I'll never forget, driving down through bright sunny hedgerows on a hot day, and coming out to see a sea of white marble crosses overlooking the ocean. It's a stunningly beautiful location on the seaside, about 12Km east of Point du Hoc.

While reading in Naval History magazine about the Ranger assault on Pointe du Hoc, I was surprised to recognize a very familiar name. Friends of our family share the same name as a US Navy destroyer that was instrumental in assisting the Rangers in their climb up the dangerous cliffs, a ship which practiced and coordinated with them and provided fire-support from all her guns at nearly point-blank range, clearing the clifftops of German counter-attackers and enabling the success of the daring approach.

And now I'm in the middle of a book about Rangers that shares the name of another gunblogger, The Unforgiving Minute. Interesting vortex, and good music.