RIPPLE SALVO… #263… “…the historical images and perceptions that men carry in their heads.”… but first…
Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE of reviewing a page of history from 50 years ago…when we were at war with North Vietnam…
20 NOVEMBER 1966… HOME TOWN HEAD LINES from the New York Times on a Sunday full of sunshine and cold air…
Page 1: “Rockefeller Calls GOP governors the party’s 1968 best hope…New Yorker thinks they will have the votes to select the ticket at the convention…asks consensus to win and wants ideology of 1964 replaced with pragmatism…meets with Romney today.”… Page 1: “GOP Bids Callaway Seek Negro support in Georgia…urge Governor Bo Callaway to make bold appeal to Negroes and white moderates.”…Page 1: “2 U.S. Destroyers Shell Radar Site In North Vietnam…barrage is believed to be the first not made in retaliation to fire from the shore. North Vietnamese cargo craft also hit…Saigon charges Cambodian troops stole buffaloes on raid across the border.” …Page 1: “Catholic Bishops Ask Fight On Bias to Ease Tensions…Pastoral statement calls on Christian, Jews and ‘all men of good will’ today to work together in combating racial discrimination and poverty. specifically, the nation’s Catholic prelates endorsed open housing with equal opportunity for all regardless of race, creed or color and asked that reasonable dialogues ‘replace slogans’ in the area of racial tension…In calling for an end to ‘slogans’ the prelates cited no examples, but it was clear they referred to such phrases as ‘black power’ and ‘white supremacy.’…”
20 NOVEMBER 1966…OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER…No coverage carried in NYT…”Vietnam: Air Losses” (Hobson)… There were no aircraft lost in Southeast Asia on 20 November 1966… oohrah…
RIPPLE SALVO… #263… “Intellectual baggage: things that encumber one’s freedom, progress, development, or adaptability, impediments: intellectual baggage that keeps one from thinking clearly, neurotic conflicts that arise from struggling with too much emotional baggage.” As in: On this day I have been overwhelmed by too much football (Brown Bear’s Huskers waxed the Terps) and find myself unable to think clearly enough to undertake a meaningful composition… I am bogged down with excessive intellectual baggage. Tomorrow will be a better day– if the Ravens win…
Less we forget… Bear -30-