The Shepherdsville Times: A Day That Shall Live In Infamy
Jerry Selby ponders on the way the world has gone since that infamous day when Japanese bombers attacked Pearl Harbour.
Not many of us left now who heard those words spoken by Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Monday morning that followed.
I heard the speech via loudspeaker where most of the students and faculty of Tech High School were assembled, in the plaza in front of the lunchroom. I was a freshman, just turned 14 in September. A pretty solemn and serious occasion. Most of the young men, students and teachers, would soon be in the military. And many more of the young women than any of us would have guessed, back in the world of 1941.
But here we all are, participants and descendants, all these years later. Not only that, but there are at least twice as many humans alive now as there were then. Better fed, better housed, and better clothed, for the most part. Better educated, living longer and healthier, on average. In spite of all the bad news we hear, that’s the way it has played out in my lifetime.
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Local folk eat out
Birds we know are year-round neighbors are showing up in numbers at our feeders, since the first real snow.
Mourning doves, cardinals, sparrows, house finches. Hairy woodpecker’s, Downie’s, and Big Red, the Red Breasted Woodpecker, who is white breasted, but with bright red on his head. And his mate, who has just a skosh of red between her ears. And snowbirds, and such who have quietly joined in the customer swarm.
The Northern Harrier hawk just flew north at a good speed. Supposed to snow, then rain, this afternoon and evening. All birds are busy, but four-leggeds are catching a few zzzz’s and figuring on pigging out when the snow melts a little.
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I spent most of yesterday trying to understand and use my new LapLink program which is supposed to copy my old Windows 98 programs to my new Windows XP, Dell computer. With my slow learning curve it is not as easy as it sounds. Nothing is.
