Snopes.com gives this poem an uncertain origin and lists two possible/probable authors.  I believe if you will just think as you read it…, well, give it a try…

Just in case you thought it safe to visit New Orleans for personal or professional reasons, take a look at this from today’s New Orleans newspaper, the Times-Picayune.

“CBD” is “Central Business District.”

 See article  here. 

There are always leftovers.  We’re talking extra pieces after assembly of Christmas toys, a third drumstick on that Thanksgiving turkey (???), concrete after a paving job, and pictures after using others to tell a story.

I was born les than four years after the attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor, so I have no memory of it.  However, I, like so many others, have seen the newsreels and photographs of the time.  A study of the history of that time shows how widespread and aggressive the Japanese intentions were.

To succeed in battle, one must either break the will of the enemy or reduce the enemy strength to less than that of his own.  [Karl Von Clausewitz]

I love work — I could watch it for hours. 

That’s my mantra now that I’ve been retired for a few years.