For whom the bugle sounds.

 

Today's Tids Issue 4,775

Salute proudly soldiers all:

 

There will be no parades this Veteran’s day. Yet as people try to adjust to the vagaries of our new upside-down world the respect and awe of the actions and bravery for Soldiers and Sailors and Marines and Air Force and Coast Guard men and women. never fades. It is a constant in our daily lives to know that there are people willing to lay down their very lives or suffer unimaginable injuries in the process of protecting our great freedoms. While the angry shout and hassle, the quiet veterans goes on living his past, often terrifying, remembering their fellow veterans; always hoping that his or her sacrifice will hold up under the fire of those who would destroy America.

 

If you notice cows sleeping in a field, does that mean it’s pasture bedtime?

 

Grocery store shelves are beginning to go skimpy again. Think a how much better the world could be if Hysteria wasn’t a word.

 

The Question:

Name The Top Ten Greatest Suspense Movies.

 

The Headlines:

--Techs Expected To Recover Loses As Futures Signal Uptick At opening; Markets Strong In Early Afternoon.

--GOP Wins Alaska Senate Seat; Total Now 50; Needs I of 2 Georgia Seats For Majority,

--New Covid Cases Passes 1 Million In First ten days Of November; 61,942 Hospitalized.

--More Officials Tossed Out At Pentagon; Replaced By Trump Loyalists.

--Trump Aids More Pessimistic About Potential Of Overturning Biden Apparent Election.

 

It is a lot stranger up here this fall mainly because so many retirees are skipping returning to Florida during the Covid mess. They are touring everything and packing golf courses.

 

Master’s hopeful Jon Rahm had two holes-in-one during practice rounds yesterday. One was rather unique. It came during an annual Masters event: “Skipping drives across the lake”. Jon skipped his ball four times across the lake, up onto dry land to the back of the green where it rolled down into the hole, Don’t practice this in your living room.

 

If you have never fought in a war, you will never know the mind and heart of a soldier.

 

Money woes is usually the result of money owes.

 

I had a question of the day already to go: “The worst liars in American Politics. The answers were the result of 388K votes in a purely entertainment apolitical site. The Top Ten were Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Al Sharpton, Loretta Lynch, Anthony Weiner, Cory Booker, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Cuomo and Joseph McCarthy. Richard Nixon was 11, Barak Obama 16, Karl Rove 18, Schumer 24, Pau Ryan 26, LBJ 27, Donald Rumsfeld 30, Joe Biden 31, Romney 32, Trump 36, Dick Cheney 39. I didn’t run it because something about it sounded fishy -- Chuck Schumer was way down at 24 and Adam Schiff was at 51. That doesn’t compute. In case you are interested, the last name at #150 was Tom Cotton.

 

We see solders marching and we forget that they are people first.

 

The Answer:

#1 was Silence of the Lambs. Next is The Sixth Sense followed by Psycho, Misery, Jaws, Rear Window, Vertigo, Seven, Country for Old Men, and at #10, the Shining. Going to 25 we have The Others, Die Hard, The Usual Suspects, North by Northwest, The Departed, Alien, Memento, the Birds, The Game (Liked this one), Cape Fear, H Jurassic Park, The Dark Knight, Inception, Fatal Attraction and Terminator 2.

 

We who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams. So this is our story, for we were soldiers once, and young”

― Joseph L. Galloway, “They Were Soldiers:…”