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The casualty lists for that one day are brutal. For the U.S. there were 1,465 dead and 1,928 missing (If you're missing, it's a safe bet you are dead). I am named for a cousin of my father's who was never found. About 19 years old. I believe he was in one of those amphibious tanks…

The cause of course, is his cause for canonization. Here's a nice feature piece from earlier this week: Charting a Path to Sainthood – washingtonpost.com Blesseds and saints aren't metaphors in Catholic doctrine. They are held up as real examples of people who successfully imitated Jesus in their lives (or deaths, in the case of…

There actually is a place called Doodletown! it’s now part of the Bear Mountain State Park, but it used to be a real village.  Doodletown, New York – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Here’s an excerpt from the wikipedia entry, which also explains the name: The town was first settled in 1762 as a small settlement north…

New hints seen that red wine may slow aging – International Herald Tribune Red wine may be much more potent than was thought in extending human lifespan, researchers say in a new report that is likely to give impetus to the rapidly growing search for longevity drugs. The study is based on dosing mice with resveratrol,…

This is Tim’s first year in the Croton Little League “major league”, where 5th, 6th, and 7th graders all play on the same team. I always bring a camera to the boys sports events – except last night (Rats!). So down below I posted two old pictures from an earlier game, as he patrols right…

The 21st annual Croton street fair. Here is “Fearless Leader” at my church, Holy Name of Mary. The Church has a big operation at Summerfest.   And here is “Da Boss,” Lori Vlad, being led away by two Croton policemen, very early in the day for rabble rousing! Well, no actually she had to go talk…

This is the climbing season on Mount Everest – the rest of the year the weather is just too bad. Yesterday was the 55th anniversary of the first summiting of Everest, by the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and the Sherpa Tenzig Norgay. A few days ago, a record 75 people reached the top of Everest on…

I don't have a counter that tells me exactly how many people visit this weblog every day; but typepad keeps a rough count on the number of page views, which is not exaclty the same as the number of visitors. Typepad also says that their count is not necessarily accurate. Anyway, yesterday I had 359…

Yesterday morning Brigid, Tim and I we went for a walk on Croton Point, partially along the south side beach (Joe was overnighting at a friend’s house). Tim took this picture – I will post more Memorial Day pix tonight.

Jim was in the Peace Corp in the late 70’s in Guatemala. Mostly a place called Quetzaltenango. I had visited him there in 1979, at the same time I was teaching in Jamaica. Went over at the Easter break and had a great time. He went back for a visit last week – the last time he’d been down was…