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Approachable knowledge. Very entertaining!!

Very well done, and very helpful in understanding what’s going on and what went on back in 1918 and how similar our two battles are. Thank you!

WOW!!! Good for you!

Excellent my good friend.

Great job describing a complex subject, and with humor as usual! Thanks!

“For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.” 

I too lived through the 60’s & early 70’s in protest, wonder and celebration. My outlet had finally arrived from a culture that stifled my existence by demanding conformity to a way of life that I disagreed with at the very core of my soul. The outlet, the brotherhood, that was lived and believed in, fell prey to time as fire cools without a flame. Only an ember that brightens within the few of us who remember with passion the call to live beyond the fenced yard of safe and secure. I sense within the movement of then that is rising to be heard. Spoken through art, music and the poet’s word, we still want to be heard, but they still aren’t listening nor do they understand.

Opps typo, article spelled articel !@#?

Great read, Reggie. The evolution of our alphabet and mathematics out of the need to maintain crop records and land ownership is indeed fascinating

Great article … sitting inside in a smoke filled world out here in California, it shows the many sides of how vulnerable we are …

I can only imagine what it took for scholars to figure the Mayan calendar out, unless there were modern-day Mayans who understood it.

First one of yours I’ve read. Cannot detect any political bias. Good.
In the military or any public office your oath is to protect and serve all Americans regardless
of race, religion, sex, creed, and so forth. Wish this applied to the media who makes more
money on lies, rumors, and innuendos than often more boring facts.

Very well written. I am probably the only person who will comment that the 1918 Influenza had anything positive about it. My grandfather(1900-1977) was a young Marine at Parris Island. He caught the first wave of the flu and survived. He was big for the time, 6 ft. at age 17, and was being trained to be a machine gunner, a job that would most likely have gotten him killed. Since he had survived, he was told he was immune and now was a hospital orderly. He said the Base Hospital had expanded into a gymnasium filled with cots. There were no ventilators, or respirators or oxygen therapy any kind and no antiviral drugs. All through daylight hours, he and the other orderlies carried out the dead as they passed. The ones who died at night were left in their bunks until first light. They were kept as comfortable as possible until they rallied or died. Nurses were busy writing letters for those who were lucid and could speak. He said that at that time, two Marines accompanied every deceased Marine home to his family and attended the funeral. I get the feeling that there were other complete wards on this base full of people who were completely miserable, unfit for duty but not on death’s door. What my grandfather described sounded like the Plague, 50% mortality or more. I know that the death rate was actually in the single digits so he must have been working in the triaged ‘dying ward’. If Covid is as deadly it will kill over 2 million Americans . I don’t think that will happen, and I guess we can take some comfort from that.