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In 1915, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, a 22-year-old officer in the Canadian army, was killed in Belgium by an exploding shell. His friend Major John McCrae, a brigadier surgeon, was inspired by Helmer’s death to write the now famous poem In Flanders Fields, originally titled We Shall Not Sleep. Published in a London magazine in December of 1915, it proved extremely popular, with its three short stanzas glorifying the war dead, beginning with an invocation of the image of those flowers:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below…
Three years later and two days before the armistice agreement was signed on Nov. 11, 1918, an American professor named Moina Michael came across the poem while volunteering at the New York headquarters of the Young Women’s Christian Association. She had the idea to wear a poppy as “an emblem of ‘keeping the faith with all who died,'” she recalled in her 1941 autobiography, The Miracle Flower. She went to Wanamaker’s department store and bought “two dozen small silk red four-petaled poppies,” which she gave to her coworkers before making more to sell.
It wasn’t until later that the poppies arrived in the U.K., the country most associated with their symbolism today.
In 1920, Anna Guérin, a member of the French branch of the YWCA, saw the poppies selling well at the American Legion convention in Cleveland. She realized that selling fabric poppies on a large scale was a practical way to fund charitable projects...
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Both my dad and my wife's dad, both WW II veterans, bought a silk poppy every year, but never said much about it. I haven't noticed the oppies much in recent years, but got some for a donation at the local VFW. I think other charities using TV advertising have replaced the poppies. The poppies, however, are a nice way to show your respect for those who sacrificed.
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Dering the annual Ring Melt, the CRMP takes graduates’ donated class rings, ceremoniously places each ring into a crucible, melts the rings to form a single gold bar, and gifts this gold bar to the newest members of the Long Gray Line to be used in the making of their class rings. Through this process, the figurative aspects of “grip hands” become literal, imbuing each new West Point class ring with all the strength, wisdom, and principles of the “Corps of an earlier day.” Their legacy lives thanks to the Class Ring Memorial Program.
Since November 2000, the West Point Association of Graduates has accepted donations of rings from West Point graduates—both deceased and living—and melted those rings into an ingot of gold at an annual Ring Melt Ceremony. Most of the resulting gold ingot is added to the commercial gold that will constitute the next graduating class’s rings. A small portion of each year’s gold ingot, however, does not go into that year’s rings. Instead, that gold is preserved and added to the rings that are being melted for the following year’s Ring Melt. Once the new ingot is made, again a shaving is taken from that ingot to be used in the subsequent Ring Melt. The gold shavings are known as the Legacy Gold because it contains gold from every ring that has been donated over the years. Because of this Ring Melt process, each West Point ring since 2002 contains gold from class rings of previous generations of the Long Gray Line.
Class Ring Memorial Program - West Point Association of Graduates
Another nice tradition.
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What if the sky no longer followed the rules we’ve always known? Imagine a world where the wind no longer flows in familiar directions, temperatures defy seasonal expectations, and storms rewrite their usual playbooks. That’s precisely what NASA has brought to light—a sweeping and profound atmospheric transformation unfolding over North America. This isn’t merely an unusual blip in the weather cycle but a major shift that could redefine the way the continent experiences climate, seasons, and daily weather rhythms...
The shift in atmospheric behavior is expected to have wide-reaching effects on regional weather. Places accustomed to temperate winters may see more frequent polar air intrusions, while drier zones might face heightened flood risks from intense rainfall. The paths of hurricanes and tornadoes may be altered, creating potential hazards for communities unaccustomed to such threats.
Meteorologists caution that traditional forecasting models are being challenged, and so-called “weather surprises” may become more common... translate to prolonged droughts in some regions, flooding in others, and an overarching sense of unpredictability in day-to-day weather experiences...
Here is the link for more about that.
NASA Just Detected a Huge Atmospheric Shift Over North America – Free Jupiter
So traditional models are being challenged. Models are made to be challenged. They should always be tested and modified as new data becomes available.
You might remember that when Fauci and Birx came out and claimed that their interventons were working fantastically because the real-world results were very different from the models they presented, I went on rant. That told me right there, they were either not being honest or didn't know what they were talking about. Since then, we learned a lot more about that.
I was also criticized for complaining about police chasing people off the beach and back to their crowded apartments during the epidemic. Now we know that being on the beach was one of the safest places you could be. But that is another subject.
Back to the subject of change. Learn from experience, especially your mistakes. Expect change and adapt.
The weather changes, the beach changes, the tides change, the technology changes, and hopefully you benefit from experience and change your views accordingly. That is a topic I'll get back to in the future.
Expect a one-to-two-foot surf for the entire coming week.
The small surf doesn't mean no change to the beaches, just smaller changes. Watch the shells roll back and forth in the swash. You can't normally see that, but you can when the surf is very calm and the water clear. And of course, on the atomic level, things are still abuzz. The electrons are still revolving around the nucleus, or perhaps more correctly, the fields are still vibrating - however you conceptualize it.
Remembering those who gave their lives.
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