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AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY Monday, July 13, 2009


Happy Belated Operation Husky Day!
I haven't come online for a long time, I realise.
I also realise that this is my 200th post. Aren't you guys proud of me? Let's give a whoop and a cheer! Clap clap clap. Now that celebrations are over, let's get on with it.
The 10th of July 1944 was D-Day for the Invasion of Sicily. It was something like a miniature D-Day, really - before the invasion, the body of a man dressed as a Major - identity Major Martin - was found floating off the coast of Spain and the Spanish took it to the Germans. Inside the briefcase was plans for the invasion of Greece. And so the Germans went and rushed all their troops there.
But Major Martin was actually a thirty four year old man who had died of chemically induced pneumonia, a civilian who never was in the Army. The whole thing was a fake, under the name of Operation Mincemeat, to make sure the German defences were not where they were supposed to be. Rather like Operation Fortitude, don't you think?
The man's name has remained a mystery to this day - he's known as "the man who never was".
First came the Airborne landings - the 505th PIR, 82nd Airborne making their first combat jump. There were winds of up to 72km/h and they blew the planes all over the place, so much so that Jumpin' Jim Gavin, commander of the 505th, thought he'd landed on mainland Italy instead. The next day the 504th PIR plus the seaborne armada came in - and the 504th lost more men to friendly fire - their own ships shooting at them - than to the Germans. Idiots.
Rather like D-Day, don't you think? Anyway. Today Science was bloody hilarious. We were starting on reflection, and our science teacher tried to cross-breed X-Men with Star Trek - a picture of Cyclops and a caption "beam me up, Scotty". Barack Obama was going on and on about how this was a sin and a culture shock. And then there was the killing of Medusa, and the defeat of Cyclops - Cyclops zaps this beam at this (in Cap'n Obvious's words) "guy in a nun costume" and the "guy in a nun costume" holds up this oval labeled "mirror". The beam bounces off and kills Cyclops. And the "guy in a nun costume" goes, "Ha ha ha! The day is saved, thanks to the mirror!" If that's not corny I don't know what is.
Guess who the 'guy in a nun costume' was?
Our Science Teacher.
I think we didn't stop laughing for two minutes.
And I've mastered pretty much everybody on the list. Obama, Joe Biden, Bill and Hillary, George W. and H.W. Bush, Al Gore, Dick Cheney. I daren't tell you what exactly I've mastered because the Feds could come and arrest me. And God knows we don't want that to happen.

~Today in History~
1941: Montenegrins start popular uprising against the Axis Powers.

~Quote of the Day~
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
-Winston Churchill. Of course, when you do get shot, that's a different story.


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The Lone Ranger

02 12 1995
Right. Let's see. I like WWII, Band of Brothers, and anything to do with either of them. And Writing.

Random presents.

-Any WWII Book (that I don't already have)
-The movie Paper Moon
-The Band of Brothers soundtrack
-One hundred dollars

Random dreams.

-Top Singapore for O Levels/A Levels
-Get into VJC
-Get a story published
-GO TO EUROPE/AMERICA
-Visit all the places I want to visit before I die
-Make a million dollars in five years
-Amass a huge quantity of WWII relics
-Get as many books as possible
-Watch all WWII movies

Random Quotes.

-No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
-Two kinds of people are staying on this beach, the dead and those who are gonna die. Now lets get the hell outta here.
-Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
-We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another direction.
-You can't say civilization isn't advancing; in every war they kill you in a new way.
-War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
-Show me a man who will jump out of an airplane, and I'll show you a man who'll fight.
-Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
-If you are going through hell...keep going.
-Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
-In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
-Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.

Random Map.

Random Top Tens.



Top ten movies:
-Band of Brothers
-Saving Private Ryan
-A Bridge Too Far
-The Longest Day
-Saints and Soldiers
-The Great Escape
-Flags of our Fathers
-Kelly's Heroes
-Patton
-The Battle of the Bulge
Top ten Books:
-Band of Brothers
-D-Day
-Citizen Soldiers
-Beyond Band of Brothers
-Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends
-A Bridge Too Far
-The Longest Day
-The Longest Winter
-Flags of Our Fathers
-Letters from Iwo Jima

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Eugene Lim
Deepak
Arunima
Tharun
Emelia
Kai Yin
Rosalinda
Jing Yi(rather dead)
Grace
Genevieve
Pheodora
Pearl
Shavonne
Joy
Melody Seet
Bryna
Rachel cough-pervert-cough Tan
Amelia (Sec 1D 09)
One Charity 08
Two Faith 09
Solo Magazine
My Stories
The Infocomm blog
Skatezone
The truth about lies (story)
Smile (story)

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