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    Really? I was an adult then and cannot recall giving one brief damn about any of these things, much less imposing my goals on people I did not know. Guess I was too busy nursing first my bedridden grandmother, then my mother, and working on my PhD to be interested. Perhaps you might reconsider?

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    11 August 1965. For reasons that concern no one, I had to call the LAPD to my house in Woodland Hills, CA. The LAPD informed me, regretfully, that they had no one to send - not so far out in the Valley. The dispatcher wished me good luck.

    The Watts Riots had begun.

    I was 10 years old.

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    11 August 1965. For reasons that concern no one, I had to call the LAPD to my house in Woodland Hills, CA. The LAPD informed me, regretfully, that they had no one to send - not so far out in the Valley. The dispatcher wished me good luck.

    The Watts Riots had begun.

    I was 10 years old.

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    Royal Military College, Kingston, ON. There they stayed for the next 50 years. Every time a researcher or historian turned up, somebody enquired whether they could read German - nobody wanted to look at the records. Until sometime around 2010. And then, somebody did. It takes time, you know.

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    At the end of WWII in Europe, huge stockpiles of records were discovered, predominantly German. These records were divided among the victors. The US stored their share in DC, Great Britain in London, I've forgotten where the French kept theirs. Canada stored their share in the Library of the

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    Putin's military is scarcely capable of keeping the the lights on in the latrines. They've no military capable of forward movement, they've lost control of the Crimea, they've got no soldiery-nothing. All because of Putin's fantasy & they figured they'd wipe out Ukraine over a long weekend.

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