Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Geneviève de Galard who passed away last Thursday at the age of 99. Galard was serving as an in-flight nurse for the French Air Force in 1954 when she became stuck at Dien Bien Phu after her plane was destroyed on the ground by Viet Minh forces. She volunteered to work in the field hospital, providing care and comfort to wounded French soldiers throughout the battle. For her efforts, she was awarded the Légion d´honneur. The Naval Institute Press published her autobiography THE ANGEL OF DIEN BIEN PHU in 2010.




Janis Paige has died at the age of 101. Her films include Silk Stockings, Romance on the High Seas, Please Don’t eat the Daisies, and Of Human Bondage. During the war, United States Army Air Forces pilots flying the P-61 Black Widow chose her as their "Black Widow Girl". In appreciation, she posed as a pin-up model, dressed in an appropriate costume.


In April 1947, she was crowned "Miss Damsite" and participated at the ground-breaking ceremony for the McNary Dam, on the Columbia River, alongside Cornelia Morton McNary, Senator Charles McNary's widow, and Oregon Governor Earl Snell.


Team Daily Mail & "NATO" making decisions about sending US troops into the meat grinder?


Daily NATO Mail

Generations of Americans have worked on revisions of this OPLAN during the Cold War. I don't see this happening. Feels like a trial balloon leaked by the European side to pressure Putin and/or signal resolve to defending Ukraine. I dunno but Ya'll know what happens when you corner a bear.

And the Democrats go...




Pay no attention to the hideous vehicle. There's a Fallout Shelter Sign! At East 87th Street in NYC.




From The Late Show with Stephen Colbert...




Bruce Dern is 88!









Quite the interesting soldier poet...


Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War.

Sassoon's bravery was so inspiring that soldiers of his company said that they felt confident only when they were accompanied by him. He often went out on night raids and bombing patrols, and demonstrated ruthless efficiency as a company commander.

Deepening depression at the horror and misery the soldiers were forced to endure produced in Sassoon a paradoxically manic courage, and he was nicknamed "Mad Jack" by his men for his near-suicidal exploits. On 27 July 1916 he was awarded the Military Cross; the citation read:

2nd Lt. Siegfried Lorraine [sic] Sassoon, 3rd (attd. 1st) Bn., R. W. Fus. For conspicuous gallantry during a raid on the enemy's trenches. He remained for 1½ hours under rifle and bomb fire collecting and bringing in our wounded. Owing to his courage and determination all the killed and wounded were brought in.

The Sassoon family, known as "Rothschilds of the East" due to the immense wealth they accumulated in banking and opium trade, are a Baghdadi Jewish family.