Subdeacon Joe

https://youtu.be/6-fXNHSDxmE?si=C2r9dPVaumNzdY0D

Thanks. I watched the first movie around '03 or '04. Never been tempted to do it again.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFIyDsrIzx9/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

OK, I'm guessing that's someone famous from some really popular movie. That's as close as I can come.

Probably not all that far off. I know that I and two of my brothers would likely not be here. Operation Downfall was scheduled to kick off on 1 November of 1945. Figure everyone who was born after July 1946 and has a Marine father wouldn't be here. Here's the Order of Battle for that Operation.

I kinda think of it as The Day That Saved Japan. If it hadn't worked and the Allies had to carry out Operation Downfall, Japan would likely have had 3,000,000 to 5,000,000, some say up to 10,000,000) Japanese deaths from direct military a tion. Add in millions more from disease and starvation.

80 years ago this day.

the United States secretly used to make a white clear Coca Cola specifically for General Zhukov after World War I| . It had the same flavor as the original, virtually unchanged by the absence of caramel coloring. After the end of World War II, General Eisenhower introduced General Zhukov to Coca Cola (Coke) for the first time. Zhokov absolutely fell in love with Coke and couldn't get enough of it. Unfortunately for General Zhukov, Coke was illegal in the Soviet Union and therefore he couldn't be seen enjoying the lovely soda. Zhukov asked his American counterpart, General Mark Clark if there was a way to produce Coke without the coloring. Clark passed on this request to President Truman who tasked Coke with making a colorless Coke that was packaged to resemble Vodka. Truman contacted Coke and asked them to create a colorless Coke that tasted the same, but was packaged to look exactly like a clear bottle of vodka. The colorless version of Coca-Cola was bottled using straight, clear glass bottles with a white cap and a red star in the middle. One unusual consequence for the Coca-Cola Company was a relaxation of the regulations imposed by the occupying powers in Austria at the time. Coca-Cola supplies and products were required to transit a Soviet occupation zone while being transported between the Lambach bottling plant and the Vienna warehouse. While all goods entering the Soviet zone normally took weeks to be cleared by authorities, Coca-Cola shipments were never stopped.

Yeah...his almost detached but still passionate narrative is amazing. Superb camera work and editing, too.

Each branch has a military ball (navy ball, army ball, etc) And it warms my heart to know that one branch will be having"Space Balls" from here on out