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With the war over and his job done, Admiral John S. McCain Sr. returned to his home in California and died Sept 6, 1945, just four days after witnessing the Japanese surrender ceremony aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. He had earlier joked that he was planning to celebrate the Allied victory in the Pacific by creating three new cocktails named "Zeke," "Jill," and "Judy" after types of Japanese planes. "Each time you drink one, you can say 'splash one Judy' or "splash one Zeke," McCain said.




"Tonight we launch..." VARIETY ad for TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING (1977).




September 5, 1981: The women’s Greenham Common peace protest, against the storage of cruise missiles at the US Air Force base in Berkshire began. It was led initially by a Welsh group, Women for Life on Earth, who were the first to arrive at Greenham. The protest lasted until 2000.


Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp

The Gates of Greenham (1985) by Tony Biggin



How the Greenham Common protest changed lives: ‘We danced on top of the nuclear silos’ (The Guardian; Mar 20, 2017) Lengthy interview article with lots of photos. What a scene that must have been and sure is different today with all the Karens & female wokesters. Those women of 40 years ago were damn tough & resilient.

Near the market town of Newbury in The United Kingdom is a Country Park like no other, with an amazing back story. Greenham Common - Britain's Nuclear Cold War Country Park:

Near the market town of Newbury in The United Kingdom is a Country Park like no other,  with an amazing back story.

Greenham Common Country Park was formerly a Royal Air Force and United States Air Force air base during World War 2, that was instrumental in both D Day and Operation Market Garden ( "A Bridge Too Far") in 1944.

Then at the start of The Cold War in 1952 it became a base for the US Strategic Air Command , in to the  late 1960s. Before becoming one of the UK's most infamous military installations  in the early 1980s,  as the site of 96 United States Ground Launched Nuclear Cruise Missiles.
It was seen on TVs throughout the world as a scene of mass anti nuclear protests in the mid 1980s.

In 2021 3 decades after The Cold War ended in 1991, it is now a gentile country park and nature reserve ... a place to walk your dog, go for a jog, or take the family for a day out. It has even been featured  as the setting for a major Hollywood Blockbuster movie in 2015.

Join me for an in depth tour and history lesson of this under rated park in the English Countryside.

501st Tactical Missile Wing

The 701st was redesignated as the 501st Tactical Missile Wing on 11 January 1982 and consolidated with the 501st Bombardment Group. It was activated on 1 July 1982, at RAF Greenham Common, England, to operate the Gryphon (BGM-109G) Ground Launched Cruise Missile (GLCM). The 501 TMW was inactivated on 31 May 1991 after ratification of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty resulted in decommissioning of the BGM-109G. The USAF's first GLCM wing when it stood up, it was the also the last GLCM wing to be inactivated.

RAF Greenham Common; 501st Tactical Missile Wing era 1982-1991:
(5 min slideshow)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydx5HPYtNak



Greenham Common Base History 1941-1992

Mothers of the Revolution (2021) – documentary narrated by English actress and politician, Glenda Jackson.




So, space is now a "team sport"??? It's one giant bee hive above our heads.


Beehive.govt.nz


Well, when you tell a group of people you do not value them and openly state you will actively discriminate against them, don’t be shocked fewer of them look elsewhere to invest their life.


Full article: DEI Is Sinking the U.S. Navy

Duty, Honor, Country | Douglas MacArthur | May 12, 1962 | West Point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_42_aLGkRpg


We are replete with toxic politics. Be a sluberdegullion for the weekend and don't worry about it. Words for the weekend...




Stay ahead of your moderate to severe eczema with Dupixent, ask your dermatologist about Skyrizi; undo your stomach stress with Pepto plus; use Wal-Mart+ for all your home delivery, pop tarts, toasted; Consumer Reports recommends Subaru. What I’ve learned from Morning News this morning.




As imperceptibly as grief
  The summer lapsed away, —
  Too imperceptible, at last,
  To seem like perfidy.
  A quietness distilled,
  As twilight long begun,
  Or Nature, spending with herself
  Sequestered afternoon.
  The dusk drew earlier in,
  The morning foreign shone, —
  A courteous, yet harrowing grace,
  As guest who would be gone.

  And thus, without a wing,
  Or service of a keel,
  Our summer made her light escape
  Into the beautiful.

Emily Dickinson