I found her tracks in the front yard headed for the side street.  Corey, our neighbor down the street had her. She was in the house playing with his preschoolers, Lily and Jack. He had broken up a fight between Libby and a pit bull mix he was taking care of.  Luckily, the other dog wasn't hurt. He couldn't let us know he had her because his phone was broken.

We rescued Libby when she was four years old so we don't know her history, but she loves people and doesn't like dogs.  I don't know if she is vicious or if she is just showing domination. I'm afraid that someday she'll pick a fight and no one will be there to stop it. Corey's dog Marley is the only animal since Josie that she won't attack.  It took several meetings with Marley before she stopped snarling at him and became friendly.  Corey and I raise chickens and garden together so the dogs have been together quite a few times.

For me, World War II was just a pleasant adventure.  I got to ride on a train for the first time, all the way from South Dakota to Norman Oklahoma with my mother.  Dad was stationed at the Navy Base near Norman for the duration of the war as a cook and we lived in an apartment house with other servicemen and their families.  So our lives weren't much different from the way they were before the war as far as I was concerned.

I do remember some changes from before, but they didn't affect me much. For instance, saving grease drippings and taking them to the local butcher.  I don't remember if mom was paid for the grease or given credit for something.  I remember the ration stamps and things being hard to get.  Gas was rationed, but we didn't have a car anyway.  We never had a car until several years after the war.  We either walked or got a ride from someone.

I started school in Norman and attended kindergarten and part of first grade by the time the war ended and we returned to South Dakota.   I acquired a little Okie accent to bring back home, but it's long since gone.  Strangely, it comes back a little when I'm around southerners.

I have a strange obsessive, compulsive disorder. I become totally consumed with something for maybe two or three years and then it becomes secondary to the next compulsion, and so on.  That's what has happened with Xanga.

The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old: Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. His benefits were later restored by act of Congress.

At the time of Pearl Harbor, the top US Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced 'sink us'); The shoulder patch of the US Army's 45th Infantry division was the swastika. Hitler's private train was named 'Amerika.' All three were soon changed for PR purposes.

More US servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine Corps. While completing the required 30 missions, an airman's chance of being killed was 71%.

Generally speaking, there was no such thing as an average fighter pilot. You were either an ace or a target. For instance, Japanese Ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa shot down over 80 planes. He died while a passenger on a cargo plane.

It was a common practice on fighter planes to load every 5th round with a tracer round to aid in aiming. This was a big mistake. Tracers had different ballistics so (at long range) if your tracers were hitting the target 80% of your rounds were missing. Worse yet tracers instantly told your enemy he was under fire and from which direction. Worst of all was the practice of loading a string of tracers at the end of the belt to tell you that you were out of ammo. This was definitely not something you wanted to tell the enemy. Units that stopped using tracers saw their success rate nearly double and their loss rate go down.

When allied armies reached the Rhine, the first thing men did was pee in it.    This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton (who had himself photographed in the act).

German Me-264 bombers were capable of bombing New York City, but they decided it wasn't worth the effort.

German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.

Among the first 'Germans' captured at Normandy were several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the German Army until they were captured by the US Army.

Following a massive naval bombardment, 35,000 United States and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands. 21 troops were killed in the assault on the island…… It could have been worse if there had actually been any Japanese on the island.

The premise of the show was that LA was devastated by a nuclear event where most of the population did not survive and all public services failed to exist. Ten volunteers who were strangers to each other and were not actors came from different backgrounds and lifestyles were given an abandoned factory building and a small amount of food.  The building and the yard surrounding it contained a lot of materials, supplies and non-running vehicles that could be used by the survivors.  Camera crews followed them around without being involved and other "friendly and unfriendly survivors" were directed to interact with them.

The ten "survivors" consisted of men and women who had a variety of backgrounds and skills that were probably too skilled overall to be called an average group of survivors.  There was a computer science engineer, a mechanical engineer, a machinist, a handyman, a medical doctor, an ER nurse, a marine biologist, an ex-convict contractor, a self defense instructor, and an aeronautical engineer.

If you will, consider this program to be an unscripted, reality version of Gilligan's Island.  Because of the highly skilled and talented people involved, they designed and built an amazing number of machines and devices.  For instance they made a generator out of a power washer, pulleys from an old fan and a car alternator and using old batteries and a power inverter they created electrical power.  When they ran out of gasoline, they built a gasifier to make wood gas to power their generator.  They took water from the LA River and filtered it with sand and charcoal.  Then they built a device to purify the water with ozone (O3).  During the two month experiment, they built a radio transmitter and receiver, a solar heated shower, an electric vehicle, a washing machine, they scavenged solar panels and created solar power, and built a variety of defense weapons.

It was an interesting and educational series, but in my opinion, highly unlikely in a real situation because of the unusual abundance of materials they had access to and the unlikely skills and resourcefulness of the participants.  The outsiders harassed them but were not allowed to harm them physically.  In a real situation, violence and the threat of violence would be a bigger factor.

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