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Pearl Harbor. 79-years ago.

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7 1941, 1941, Japanese, attack

I wouldn’t show up on the scene until twenty years and four days later, but I was fortunate to grow up in a time where our American heroes from World War II were still around to talk about things.

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 1941, December 7, Japanese, attack,
WWII: PEARL HARBOR, 1941. Sailors in a motorboat rescue a survivor from the water from the sinking USS West Virginia, after the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor. The USS Tennessee is also visible. Photograph 7 December 1941. From The Granger Collection.

God Bless what’s left of America. Let us never forget — by never forgetting, may we not be doomed to repeat.

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Reactivated.

I took about five months off to work on other projects. Gave up 100% of my “social media,” and pretty much stepped off the world train. It was, in a word–awesome. Turns out, I didn’t miss much of anything. I did miss a lot of the people, so my herd instinct brought me back.

If you believe even a small portion of what the drug company supported commercial media is spewing out there, you’d think the entire country has pretty much gone to hell. In a lot of ways, I’d agree that it has. But, fact is, we really don’t have that luxury. We’ve been through worse, with fewer options.

I had shut down this web domain at BruceGibsonDesign.com and put more focus on my domain at GibsonLeather.com. I decided that I wanted the punishment of trying to maintain two websites, so I reactivated this one with a new theme, and very little planning and direction. I don’t have a blog on the other site, and I missed it.

Overall, I’ve learned that most of the time, ignorance is, in fact, bliss. We don’t have enough letters in the alphabet to name all the storms in a busy hurricane season, ALL gun laws are unconstitutional, our immune systems are shot, most politicians aren’t people we’d allow into our homes, and it really doesn’t matter who the President is. I’ve seen a few over the last near-60-years, and I can’t name one that has made what I’d call a “difference.” That’s probably a good thing–if they had that power, we’d really be screwed.

Beyond all that, it’s nice to be back.