tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post8297806572986194648..comments2024-03-28T15:05:10.372-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: The Saturday Snapshot #14Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-70236769749049605422018-11-11T23:04:41.410-06:002018-11-11T23:04:41.410-06:00My husband and I attended a small concert in our l...My husband and I attended a small concert in our local library on Sunday. The musicians knew a lot of songs from a number of different decades. At the end, I asked if they could play a WWI song in honor of the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, the end of WWI. They hastily denied knowing any World War I songs. I threw pit some titles. Then I offered “World War II? Any patriotic songs to honor this special day?” Nothing. I was gentle but sadly disappointed and surprised. <br /><br /><br /><br />”Christmashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16788893936653416319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-73311240174998576502018-11-10T16:18:43.786-06:002018-11-10T16:18:43.786-06:00"It is well that war is so terrible, else we ..."It is well that war is so terrible, else we would grow to love it." Robert E. Lee<br /><br />Sadly, we do revel in the memory.<br /><br />TomTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-44299857813722837362018-11-10T13:02:48.910-06:002018-11-10T13:02:48.910-06:00Still sounds like an interesting book, Tate.Still sounds like an interesting book, Tate.Privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757585399827295128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-35834680528007797002018-11-10T13:01:53.979-06:002018-11-10T13:01:53.979-06:00They should put up a sign saying the museum portio...They should put up a sign saying the museum portion is open for all.Privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757585399827295128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-83722206075612816202018-11-10T11:36:59.480-06:002018-11-10T11:36:59.480-06:00My father survived Pearl Harbor, where he was in v...My father survived Pearl Harbor, where he was in very little danger. On Palmyra Island where no enemy bullets rained, malaria and tachycardia almost killed him. His fortune and mine interwoven seven years before my birth, though I didn't learn that part until much later in life. He was a Marine who was in a famous battle depicted on the big screen, something to engender pride. But by the time I saw Oliver Stone's "Born on the Fourth of July" the parade early on was the strongest message. Not the heroism or the scorning of vets by some. Not even the criminally minimum care for the wounded men like Ron Kovic. The saddest words uttered by the young Kovic watching the Parade on Independence Day, when he sees the veterans, wearing their medals and old uniforms, marching behind the bands and floats, with childish pride to his dad he exclaims, "The Soldiers!". Rather than rueing the dead, we glorify the heroes, seeding the military for the future wars.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613528527379198505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-85420477230164519162018-11-10T10:56:14.465-06:002018-11-10T10:56:14.465-06:00Lived on the North Side and in the north suburbs f...Lived on the North Side and in the north suburbs for half-a-lifetime, even spent a summer living at Broadway and Surf. Never been inside, although I passed the entrance many times that summer, either on foot or on my bike. Never saw any activity. Nobody entering or leaving. Which made it very easy to assume the Elks Memorial was closed and locked, except for private fraternal ceremonies...and maybe funerals...because its exterior looks so much like a place one would associate with grief and death. <br /><br />I was completely unaware of its interior grandeur, or the size of its dome, until reading your column and seeing the images, which have made me plan to visit this enormous space the next time I'm in Chicago. I do recall a brief mention of the Elks Memorial in "You Were Never In Chicago"--but the Armistice centennial is certainly the right time to highlight it once again. Maybe it will boost attendance...to perhaps as many as twenty visitors a day. One can only hope. Thank you, Mr. S.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-55141742209250822532018-11-10T09:19:53.522-06:002018-11-10T09:19:53.522-06:00Passed by a few times and wondered about entering ...Passed by a few times and wondered about entering afraid of being told it was private. I guess that's why reporters are needed more than ever. The ones brave enough to ask " What is this?"Paul Fedrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04384556977324071639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-772436335657684802018-11-10T08:49:16.690-06:002018-11-10T08:49:16.690-06:00With regard to your allusion to the "never bo...With regard to your allusion to the "never born," I just finished A Higher Call, a book centering around an encounter between a B-17 bomber and a German fighter plane. The B-17 was almost completely destroyed, limping home on only one of its 4 engines, and the German risked his own life by taking the plane through the coastal flak batteries that would have finished off the bomber. Long after the war, the pilots of the 2 planes met in the course of which the American expressed gratitude not only for saving his life and 8 of his crewmen, but for the 26 people, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, who would not have come into existence, had the fighter plane not protected the bomber.<br /><br />I can't recommend the book, however, as it's written in a novelistic omniscient style that bothered me as I read, casting doubt not on the facts but on the believability of the thoughts and feelings expressed by the characters.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-3937494612458681752018-11-10T08:20:45.621-06:002018-11-10T08:20:45.621-06:00Very touching words.Very touching words.Privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10757585399827295128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-10096981472381880832018-11-10T07:31:11.594-06:002018-11-10T07:31:11.594-06:00with its location thousands of people PASS there e...with its location thousands of people PASS there everyday. I know I have many hundreds of times . I never knew what the buildings purpose was.not sure what the elks are all about. its not inviting isn't architecturaling appealing, seems to have no advertising associated with it prior to your piece very little publicity and was designed to honor one of the more horrific and unnecessary events of the the 20th century. honoring our war dead is important, but I can't help feeling it leads to more soldiers dying , often for no reason whatsoever. this veterans Day , like every other very few people will take notice of the sacrifices made by their fellow citizens. FMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829632906445535928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-90566153222612456692018-11-10T06:38:12.563-06:002018-11-10T06:38:12.563-06:00When I think about the children who were never bor...When I think about the children who were never born, that thought always leads me to think of the children's children, and grandchildren, and great grandchildren, and on and on, forever. Using the Civil War as a point of reference, try to imagine the people who were never born in each generation, since. How would the world be influenced by their lives? On a more personal level, would any of those who were never born have touched your life? Would your life be different as a result?Tony Galatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944671504245191140noreply@blogger.com