Happy Labor Day!
1. The first Monday of September has arrived. The year is 2/3 complete with only 17 Mondays remaining in the year.
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| Grapevines at Big Cork Rohersville, MD September 1, 2024 |
3. We visited my favorite Maryland winery yesterday, Big Cork Vineyards. The wines are tasting great and we thoroughly enjoyed spending a Sunday afternoon talking, drinking wine, and enjoying live music that was not too loud to make conversation difficult. Best wine of the day? Black Label Cabernet Franc ($60), and worth it! Make a tasting reservation and visit Big Cork.
4. Chris and I begin our travel back to Florida via Athens, GA, on Wednesday.
5. I continue to be confounded by a claim that candidate Trump has repeatedly made that Democrats want to allow abortions even after birth. Please explain to me how an abortion can occur after birth. Once born in the United States, my understanding is that the child has right the rights of citizens and killing them would be murder, not abortion.
6. Today in History. Aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II.
By the summer of 1945, the defeat of Japan was a foregone conclusion. The Japanese navy and air force were destroyed. The Allied naval blockade of Japan and intensive bombing of Japanese cities had left the country and its economy devastated. At the end of June, the Americans captured Okinawa, a Japanese island from which the Allies could launch an invasion of the main Japanese home islands. U.S. General Douglas MacArthur was put in charge of the invasion, which was code-named “Operation Olympic” and set for November 1945.
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-- Bob Doan, Odenton, MD
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