My friends and I loved watching Mazeppa on Saturdays and a live show in Joplin, Missouri when I lived there. Oh yes, and once had a personal visit with Vern Miller’s boys in Wichita. Thanks for the memories, Kerry!
Sitting at a friend of a friend’s house smoking pot while there was a drug deal going down in the next room. Things were mellow until the two guys in the next room came crashing into the living room, fists flying. Determining that it was time to depart, my friend and I headed out to my VW bug and I opened the driver’s door to get in. A number of cops ran up and one grabbed my arm. I was terrified since my 2 pockets contained illegal substances. I saw no escape until the resident drug dealer came running out on the porch with a gun, jumped the railing, and took off. The cop let go of me and went after him. I had seconds to rid myself of my stash in the bushes before another cop grabbed my arm. We were taken inside so they could check our records and wait for a police matron to search the girls. I got taken downtown to pay parking tickets.
When recently visiting Sydney we saw a sad, beautiful monument in one of their largest parks that was a memorial to the horrible Gallipoli Campaign in WWI (https://www.anzacmemorial.nsw.gov.au/). Ataturk was one of the military leaders who successfully defeated the ANZAC and British attack at enormous cost on both sides, and he became famous for this.
Yep, Ataturk was trained by the Ottomans to become a skilled military leader - and then he used those skills to defeat them in turn: irony with a gun. But for me, the bitterest part of his legacy is the denial of the Armenian genocide. The denial left his beautiful country with a horrid moral legacy not unlike our legacy with Native Americans. The truth and reconciliation path is hugely bumpy, but far better in the long run.
My friends and I loved watching Mazeppa on Saturdays and a live show in Joplin, Missouri when I lived there. Oh yes, and once had a personal visit with Vern Miller’s boys in Wichita. Thanks for the memories, Kerry!
What happened in Wichita??
Sitting at a friend of a friend’s house smoking pot while there was a drug deal going down in the next room. Things were mellow until the two guys in the next room came crashing into the living room, fists flying. Determining that it was time to depart, my friend and I headed out to my VW bug and I opened the driver’s door to get in. A number of cops ran up and one grabbed my arm. I was terrified since my 2 pockets contained illegal substances. I saw no escape until the resident drug dealer came running out on the porch with a gun, jumped the railing, and took off. The cop let go of me and went after him. I had seconds to rid myself of my stash in the bushes before another cop grabbed my arm. We were taken inside so they could check our records and wait for a police matron to search the girls. I got taken downtown to pay parking tickets.
When recently visiting Sydney we saw a sad, beautiful monument in one of their largest parks that was a memorial to the horrible Gallipoli Campaign in WWI (https://www.anzacmemorial.nsw.gov.au/). Ataturk was one of the military leaders who successfully defeated the ANZAC and British attack at enormous cost on both sides, and he became famous for this.
Yep, Ataturk was trained by the Ottomans to become a skilled military leader - and then he used those skills to defeat them in turn: irony with a gun. But for me, the bitterest part of his legacy is the denial of the Armenian genocide. The denial left his beautiful country with a horrid moral legacy not unlike our legacy with Native Americans. The truth and reconciliation path is hugely bumpy, but far better in the long run.