May 25, 2009
the best book i ever found in a library was a historical chronicle of the 40s and 50s, dealing primarily with wwII and its after effects.  this is how the book described the japanese ambassador who never let on about the impending pearl harbor attack: “Given to hearty belly laughs and good whiskey, Nomura was an old Potomac hand.” but these snippets were my favorite part.  they were collected under the heading “Where were you when the bombs fell?” +Near the married mens’ quarters at Pearl a gang of children jumped up and down screaming “Here come the Indians!” +Ernest Vogt and his family continued eating their Sunday roast chicken dinner in New York City.  “I thought it was another Orson Welles hoax.” +An hour after an appeal for blood, 500 volunteers swamped Dr. John Devereux and three assistants at the Honolulu blood bank; they ran out of containers and used sterilized coke bottles.  Devereux’s best volunteer, cleaning beer bottles and tubes, was a local prostitute.

the best book i ever found in a library was a historical chronicle of the 40s and 50s, dealing primarily with wwII and its after effects.  this is how the book described the japanese ambassador who never let on about the impending pearl harbor attack:

“Given to hearty belly laughs and good whiskey, Nomura was an old Potomac hand.”

but these snippets were my favorite part.  they were collected under the heading “Where were you when the bombs fell?”

+Near the married mens’ quarters at Pearl a gang of children jumped up and down screaming “Here come the Indians!”

+Ernest Vogt and his family continued eating their Sunday roast chicken dinner in New York City.  “I thought it was another Orson Welles hoax.”

+An hour after an appeal for blood, 500 volunteers swamped Dr. John Devereux and three assistants at the Honolulu blood bank; they ran out of containers and used sterilized coke bottles.  Devereux’s best volunteer, cleaning beer bottles and tubes, was a local prostitute.